British Women Writers and the French Revolution

Citizens of the World
2005. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-349-50810-5
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 225 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 308 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print

British Women Writers and the French Revolution provides an overview of a wide range of British women's writings on the French Revolution, from writers sympathetic to the Revolution like Mary Robinson, Helen Maria Williams, and Charlotte Smith, to anti-revolutionary writers like Hannah More and Jane West. Based on new research in French and British archives and libraries, the book uncovers little-known writings by British women, and argues that these writers developed a distinct antinationalism, in some cases even a feminist cosmopolitanism, in their responses to the European revolutionary crisis.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Craciun, Adriana

Craciun, A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations Introduction Nationalism and Internationalism Female Philosophers: Women and the "Word War" of the 1790s Mary Robinson and Radical Politics: The French Connection Virtue and Terror: Robespierre, Williams, and the Corruption of Revolutionary Ideals Citizens of the World: The Émigrés in the British Imagination Epilogue: Napoleonic Challenges and Cosmopolitan Legacies Appendix I: January 1794 Timeline Appendix II: Tabitha Bramble to Robert Dundas, 23 January 1794 Works Cited Index

Über Autor(innen)

ADRIANA CRACIUN is the author of (2003) and the co-editor of (2001). She has published widely on women's writings in the Romantic period, and teaches British literature and critical theory at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.