%0 Book %A A.D. Cousins %A Dani Napton %A Stephanie Russo %D 2011 %C New York, United States of America %I Peter Lang Verlag %@ 9781453902417 %T The French Revolution and the British Novel in the Romantic Period %R 10.3726/978-1-4539-0241-7 %U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1051144 %X 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. %K eighteenth-century novel, French Revolution, revolution, counter-revolution, history of ideas %G English