Women, revolution, and the novels of the 1790s
By: edited by Linda Lang-Peralta.
Contributors: Lang-Peralta, Linda.
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: East Lansing
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism.; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.; Popular literature -- Great Britain -- History and criticism.; English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Revolutionary literature, English -- History and criticism.; France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Literature and the revolution.; France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Foreign public opinion, British.; France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Influence.
Description: "Literary historians working in the period of the late eighteenth century tend to either focus on authors of the Enlightenment or authors who were Romanticists. This collection of essays focuses on sub-genres of the novel form that evolved during the end of the century. These were novels - frequently written by women - that reflect the intersections between literature and popular culture.

Using a representative reading of these works and current academic thinking on gender and class, the contributors to this volume offer a new perspective with which to view the novels of the 1790s."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-189).
"A colleagues book."
Table of contents: title: Women and public space in the novel of the 1790s / Catherine H. Decker; title: Revolutionary domesticity in Charlotte Smith's Desmond / Katherine Binhammer; title: The crowd and the public in Godwin's Caleb Williams / Carl Fisher; title: Injustice in the works of Godwin and Wollstonecraft / Glynis Ridley; title: Radcliffe, Godwin and self-possession in the 1790s / Barbara M. Benedict; title: Lewis's The monk and the matter of reading / Clara D. McLean; title: The imprisoned female body in Mary Hays's The victim of prejudice / Eleanor Ty; title: Masculinity and morality in Elizabeth Inchbald's Nature and art / Shawn Lisa Maurer.