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Revolutionary subjects in the English "Jacobin" novel, 1790-1805
- Title
- Revolutionary subjects in the English "Jacobin" novel, 1790-1805 / Miriam L. Wallace.
- Author
- Wallace, Miriam L.
- Publication
- Cranbury, NJ : Bucknell University Press, ©2009.
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- Description
- 314 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- The "Jacobin" novel was labeled as such in Britain because of its supposed connections to the French Revolution. This book takes an in-depth look at these novels, written between 1790 and 1805. She centers on the group surrounding Wollstonecraft and Godwin, although not exclusively, exploring the limits of their philosophy of human rights and personal subjectivity. Unlike other recent scholars, the author treats both male and female writers, making feminism an aspect of the work but not the overriding one. While the novels are the main focus, other work by the writers is considered as it pertains to their beliefs. She also discusses the reaction from those who defined the "Jacobins" by opposing them.
- Series Statement
- The Bucknell studies in eighteenty-century [sic] literature and culture
- Uniform Title
- Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture
- Subject
- 1700-1899
- Geschichte 1790-1805
- Political fiction, English > History and criticism
- English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism
- Human rights in literature
- Revolutionaries in literature
- English fiction > French influences
- Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > 18th century
- English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
- Jacobins in literature
- English fiction
- Political fiction, English
- Politics and literature
- Roman
- Jakobiner Motiv
- Politik Motiv
- Great Britain
- Englisch
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Duplicitous subjects and the tyranny of ideology: Godwin's Things as they are; or Caleb Williams (1794) and Fenwick's Secresy (1795) -- Constructing revolutionary subjects: Wollstonecraft's rational citizen and Hays's "female philosopher" -- Revolutionary masculinities in Anna St. Ives (1792) and Hermsprong (1796) -- Female suffering and witnessing subjects in Hays's The victim of prejudice (1799) -- Subjects of property and The memoirs of Bryan Perdue (1805) -- Anti-Jacobin re-visions and relational subjects in Edmund Oliver (1798) and Adeline Mowbray (1805) -- Anti-Jacobin parody and the reformist continuum: Memoirs of modern philosophers (1805) -- Conclusion: revolutionary subjectivities and rights discourse.
- ISBN
- 9780838757055
- 0838757057
- LCCN
- 2008048300
- OCLC
- ocn269455968
- 269455968
- SCSB-14512967
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library