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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsContents: A. D. Cousins/Dani Napton/Stephanie Russo: Introduction. The French Revolution and the British Novel in the Romantic Period – M. O. Grenby: ‘Very Naughty Doctrines’: Children, Children’s Literature, Politics and the French Revolution Crisis – Stephanie Russo: ‘A People Driven By Terror’: Charlotte Smith,
The Banished Man and the Politics of Counter-Revolution – Gary Kelly: ‘The Sentiments I Have Embodied’: Wollstonecraft’s Feminist Adaptation of the Revolutionary Novel – Stephanie Russo/A. D. Cousins: ‘In a State of Terrour and Misery Indescribable’: Violence, Madness and Revolution in the novels of Frances Burney – Stephanie Russo/A. D. Cousins: ‘Educated in Masculine Habits’: Mary Robinson, Androgyny, and the Ideal Woman – Dani Napton: Revolutionary and Counter-Revolutionary Agency in Scott’s
Woodstock and
Peveril of the Peak – Chris Danta: Revolution at a Distance: Jane Austen and Personalised History – Michael Ackland: Towards Rehabilitating ‘The Long Blighted Tree of Knowledge’: Mary Shelley’s Revolutionary Concept of Self-Governance and Dominion in
The Last Man – Deirdre Coleman: ‘Adapted to Her Meridian’: The Novel, The Woman Reader, and the French Revolution.
