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British Women Writers and the French Revolution: Citizens of the World

By Adriana Craciun

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2005
ISBN
1403902356, 9781403902351, 9780230501881
LCC
PR129.F8 C73 2005
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2148160 bytes)
Series
Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print
Edition
1st
Pages
256\238
Topic
Education
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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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