Description
Book SynopsisM. O. Grenby's book offers an insight into the society which produced and consumed anti-Jacobin novels. He examines the strategies used by conservatives in their fiction, thus shedding new light on how the anti-Jacobin campaign was understood and organised in Britain.
Trade Review'M. O. Grenby offers a beautifully written and illuminating account of a neglected but useful literary source for the British conservative response to the French Revolution and the 'Revolution crisis' in Britain … this is a thorough study, yet one written with pace, cogency and brio, enlivened by many apt excerpts from the pithy, sometimes enjoyably caustic summaries of Dr Grenby's raw materials.' History
'Filling in a long-standing blank in our perception of the Romantic-era novel, The Anti-Jacobin Novel offers a valuable contribution to British literary history, as well as powerful arguments for revisiting the way in which literary criticism has tended to represent British politics and society of the 1790s in the last few decades. For these, and other reasons, Grenby has done the critical community a great service. … ground-breaking …'. Romanticism
Table of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Novels reproved and reprieved; 2. Representing revolution; 3. The new philosophy; 4. The Vaurien and the hierarchy of Jacobinism; 5. Levellers, Nabobs and the manners of the great: the novel's defense of hierarchy; 6. The creation of orthodoxy: constructing the anti-Jacobin novel; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
