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Title: The French Revolution and the British Novel in the Romantic Period

The French Revolution and the British Novel in the Romantic Period

by A.D. Cousins (Volume editor) Dani Napton (Volume editor) Stephanie Russo (Volume editor)
©2012 Monographs X, 209 Pages
English Studies
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
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.

Biographical notes

A.D. Cousins (Volume editor) Dani Napton (Volume editor) Stephanie Russo (Volume editor)

A. D. Cousins is Professor of English at Macquarie University, Australia. A member of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, he has published widely on early modern British literature and culture; his most recent publication is The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet (with Peter Howarth). Dani Napton is an honorary associate at Macquarie University. Her research is focused on English non-dramatic literature and culture from 1750 to 1900, with special attention to the history of ideas, rhetorical theory and practice, genre, landscape/place narrative and political theory, and historiography and representations of revolution and counterrevolution. Stephanie Russo is a lecturer at Macquarie University. Her research is focused on the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel, particularly on gender, politics, the history of ideas, and representations of revolution and counter-revolution.

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