The Anti-Jacobin Novel
Subtitle: British Conservatism and the French Revolution (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 13, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780521021265
Subjects: European history: c 1750 to c 1900; Novels, other prose & writers: 16th to 18th centuries; Political activism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; English; British Isles; Europe; Eastern European; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English fiction--18th century--History and cr; English fiction--18th century--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / Eastern European; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism-Eastern European
First sentence: A rhetoric of opposition to the spread of reading, and to the educational and distributive processes that seemed to facilitate it, grew steadily throughout the eighteenth century.