French Revolution and the British Novel in the Romantic Period.
Title:
French Revolution and the British Novel in the Romantic Period.
Author:
Cousins, A. D.
ISBN:
9781453902417
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (222 pages)
Series:
Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature ; v.112
Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction The French Revolution and the British Novel in the Romantic Period A. D. Cousins, Dani Napton and Stephanie Russo, Macquarie University 1 -- Chapter 1 'Very Naughty Doctrines': Children, Children's Literature, Politics and the French Revolution Crisis M. O. Grenby, Newcastle University 15 -- Chapter 2 'A People Driven By Terror': Charlotte Smith, The Banished Man and the Politics of Counter-Revolution Stephanie Russo, Macquarie University 37 -- Chapter 3 'The Sentiments I Have Embodied': Wollstonecraft's Feminist Adaptation of the Revolutionary Novel Gary Kelly, University of Alberta 55 -- Chapter 4 'In a State of Terrour and Misery Indescribable': Violence, Madness and Revolution in the novels of Frances Burney Stephanie Russo and A. D. Cousins, Macquarie University 83 -- Chapter 5 'Educated in Masculine Habits': Mary Robinson, Androgyny, and the Ideal Woman Stephanie Russo and A. D. Cousins, Macquarie University 101 -- Chapter 6 Revolutionary and Counter-Revolutionary Agency in Scott's Woodstock and Peveril of the Peak Dani Napton, Macquarie University 113 -- Chapter 7 Revolution at a Distance: Jane Austen and Personalised History Chris Danta, University of New South Wales 137 -- Chapter 8 Towards Rehabilitating 'The Long Blighted Tree of Knowledge': Mary Shelley's Revolutionary Concept of Self-Governance and Dominion in The Last Man Michael Ackland, James Cook University 153 -- Chapter 9 'Adapted to Her Meridian': The Novel, The Woman Reader, and the French Revolution Deirdre Coleman, University of Melbourne 179 -- Bibliography 187 -- Notes on Contributors 203 -- Index 205.
Abstract:
This book is a major reassessment of the French Revolution's impact on the English novel of the Romantic period. Focusing particularly - but by no means exclusively - on women writers of the time, it explores the enthusiasm, wariness, or hostility with which the Revolution was interpreted and represented for then-contemporary readers. A team of international scholars study how English Romantic novelists sought to guide the British response to an event that seemed likely to turn the world upside down.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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