The French Revolution and the British Novel in the Romantic Period
©2012
Monographs
X,
209 Pages
Series:
Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature, Volume 112
Summary
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.
Details
- Pages
- X, 209
- Publication Year
- 2012
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781453902417
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9781433116391
- DOI
- 10.3726/978-1-4539-0241-7
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2011 (December)
- Keywords
- eighteenth-century novel French Revolution revolution counter-revolution history of ideas
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2011. X, 209 pp.
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