British Women Writers and the French Revolution E-Book

A. Craciun

• Herausgeber: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Serie: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2005

Beschreibung

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.