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Revolutionary subjects in the English "Jacobin" novel, 1790-1805

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Main Author: Wallace, Miriam L.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cranbury, NJ : Bucknell University Press, c2009.
Series:Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture.
Subjects:
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.
Electronic books.
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Table of 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.

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