%0 Book
%A A.D. Cousins
%A Dani Napton
%A Stephanie Russo
%D 2012
%C New York, United States of America
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 9781453902417
%T The French Revolution and the British Novel in the Romantic Period
%R 10.3726/978-1-4539-0241-7
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1051144
%X This book is a major reassessment of the French Revolution’s impact on the English novel of the Romantic period. Focusing particularly – but by no means exclusively – on women writers of the time, it explores the enthusiasm, wariness, or hostility with which the Revolution was interpreted and represented for then-contemporary readers. A team of international scholars study how English Romantic novelists sought to guide the British response to an event that seemed likely to turn the world upside down.
%K eighteenth-century novel, French Revolution, revolution, counter-revolution, history of ideas
%G English