Revolutionary subjects in the English "Jacobin" novel
By: Miriam Wallace.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lewisburg [Pa.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780838757055
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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Duplicitous subjects and the tyranny of ideology: Godwin's Things as they are; or Caleb Williams (1794) and Fenwick's Secresy; title: Constructing revolutionary subjects: Wollstonecraft's rational citizen and Hays's "female philosopher"; title: Revolutionary masculinities in Anna St. Ives (1792) and Hermsprong; title: Female suffering and witnessing subjects in Hays's The victim of prejudice; title: Subjects of property and the memoirs of Bryan Perdue; title: Anti-Jacobin re-visions and relational subjects in Edmund Oliver (1798) and Adeline Mowbray; title: Anti-Jacobin parody and the reformist continuum: memoirs of modern philosophers; title: Conclusion: revolutionary subjectivities and rights discourse.