British Women Writers and the French Revolution: Citizens of the WorldBritish 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. |
Contents
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Women and the Word War of the 1790s | 27 |
The French Connection | 60 |
Robespierre Williams and the Corruption of Revolutionary Ideals | 95 |
The Émigrés in the British Imagination | 138 |
Napoleonic Challenges and Cosmopolitan Legacies | 179 |
Notes | 193 |
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British Women Writers and the French Revolution: Citizens of the World A. Craciun No preview available - 2005 |
British Women Writers and the French Revolution: Citizens of the World Adriana Craciun No preview available - 2005 |
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