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Author:

Wallace, Miriam L.

Title:

Revolutionary subjects in the English "Jacobin" novel, 1790-1805 / Miriam L. Wallace.

Publisher:

Bucknell University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

314 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Series:

The Bucknell studies in eighteenty-century [sic] literature and culture

ISBN:

0838757057 (alk. paper)
9780838757055 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)269455968

LCCN:

2008048300

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)