British Women Writers And The French Revolution: Citizens Of The World - Rilegato

Craciun, Adriana

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ISBN 10: 1403902356 ISBN 13: 9781403902351

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

Riassunto

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.

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L'autore:

ADRIANA CRACIUN is the author of Fatal Women of Romanticism (2003) and the co-editor of Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution (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.

Contenuti:

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

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1403902356
• ISBN 13: 9781403902351
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 225