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.
| ISBN: | 9781433116391 |
| Publication date: | 31st October 2011 |
| Author: | AD Cousins |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang Publishing Inc |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 209 pages |
| Series: | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: general Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Gender studies, gender groups European history Colonialism and imperialism National liberation and independence |