Author: John Barrell
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: 1790s, privacy, invasions, despotism, spirit
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2006-03-30
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0199281203
ISBN-13: 9780199281206

How was the social and cultural life of Britain affected by the fear that the French Revolution would spread across the channel? In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien régime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the "normal" arena of politics. Activities and spaces which had previously been regarded as "outside" politics s

Author: David Bromwich
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: 1790s, poetry, wordsworth, memory, disowned
Number of Pages: 193
Published: 2000-04-15
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0226075575
ISBN-13: 9780226075570

Although we know him as one of the greatest English poets, William Wordsworth might not have become a poet at all without the experience of personal and historical catastrophe in his youth. In Disowned by Memory, David Bromwich connects the accidents of Wordsworth’s life with the originality of his writing, showing how the poet’s strong sympathy with the political idealism of the age and with the lives of the outcast and the dispossessed formed the deepest motive of his writings of the 1790s."This very Wordsworthian combination of apparently low subjects with extraordinary ’h

Author: John Rieder
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Keywords: vision, 1790s, virtue, community, counterrevolutionary, wordsworth
Number of Pages: 273
Published: 1997-07
List price: $41.50
ISBN-10: 0874136105
ISBN-13: 9780874136104

Author: Angela Keane
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: belongings, cambridge, studies, romanticism, romantic, 1790s, writers, english, nation, women
Number of Pages: 214
Published: 2001-01-29
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0521773423
ISBN-13: 9780521773423

Angela Keane addresses the work of five women writers of the 1790s and its problematic relationship with the canon of Romantic literature. Refining arguments that women’s writing has been overlooked, Keane examines the more complex underpinnings and exclusionary effects of the English national literary tradition. The book explores the negotiations of literate, middle-class women such as Hannah More, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Smith, Helen Maria Williams and Ann Radcliffe with emergent ideas of national literary representation.Angela Keane addresses the work of five women writers of t

Author: Jim Smyth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: revolution, 1790s, ireland, union, counter
Number of Pages: 257
Published: 2001-02-15
List price: $122.00
ISBN-10: 0521661099
ISBN-13: 9780521661096

This volume of essays explores United Irish propaganda and organization, and looks at the forces of revolution before and during the 1798 rebellion. Its scope ranges from high to low politics, and it covers subjects from literary propaganda to art history and the history of religion. It also differs from earlier "bicentenary" volumes by shedding new light on "counter-revolution," repression, and the state, and by shifting the chronological center of gravity away from 1798 toward the immediate aftermath and the longer-term consequences.

Author: Claudia L. Johnson
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: austen, burney, women, culture, series, society, radcliffe, wollstonecraft, politics, beings, gender, sentimentality, 1790s, equivocal
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1995-06-15
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0226401847
ISBN-13: 9780226401843

In the wake of the French Revolution, Edmund Burke argued that civil order depended upon nurturing the sensibility of men—upon the masculine cultivation of traditionally feminine qualities such as sentiment, tenderness, veneration, awe, gratitude, and even prejudice. Writers as diverse as Sterne, Goldsmith, Burke, and Rousseau were politically motivated to represent authority figures as men of feeling, but denied women comparable authority by representing their feelings as inferior, pathological, or criminal. Focusing on Mary Wollstonecraft, Ann Radcliffe, Frances Burney, and Jane Austen, wh