The English Jacobin Novel 1780-1805
Author : Gary Kelly
Publisher : Oxford [Eng.] ; New York : Clarendon Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 25,7 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Author : Gary Kelly
Publisher : Oxford [Eng.] ; New York : Clarendon Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 25,7 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Author : Gary Kelly
Publisher :
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 10,54 MB
Release : 1973
Category : English fiction
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Author : Gary Kelly
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,43 MB
Release : 1973
Category : English fiction
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Author : Miriam L. Wallace
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 16,28 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838757057
The "Jacobin" novel was labeled as such in Britain because of its supposed connections to the French Revolution. This book takes an in-depth look at these novels, written between 1790 and 1805. She centers on the group surrounding Wollstonecraft and Godwin, although not exclusively, exploring the limits of their philosophy of human rights and personal subjectivity. Unlike other recent scholars, the author treats both male and female writers, making feminism an aspect of the work but not the overriding one. While the novels are the main focus, other work by the writers is considered as it pertains to their beliefs. She also discusses the reaction from those who defined the "Jacobins" by opposing them.
Author : N. Johnson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 34,96 MB
Release : 2004-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230503381
The English Jacobin Novel on Rights, Property and the Law is a study of the radical novel's critique of the evolving social contract in the 1790s. Focusing on selected novels by Thomas Holcroft, Charlotte Smith, Elizabeth Inchbald, Robert Bage, William Godwin, Mary Hays, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Maria Edgeworth, this book examines narrative investigations into the intricate relationships between theories of rights, the requirements of proprietorship in civil society, and the construction of the legal subject.
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Publisher : Arihant Publications India limited
Page : 889 pages
File Size : 24,88 MB
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ISBN : 9326192512
Author : Wil Verhoeven
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 35,63 MB
Release : 2024-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1040247784
Thomas Holcroft (1745–1809) was a key figure in the radical movement of the 1790s. This work is intended for scholars wanting to understand Britain and its literature in the 1790s.
Author : Katrin Berndt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 38,26 MB
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110649896
The handbook offers a comprehensive introduction to the British novel in the long eighteenth century, when this genre emerged to develop into the period’s most versatile and popular literary form. Part I features six systematic chapters that discuss literary, intellectual, socio-economic, and political contexts, providing innovative approaches to issues such as sense and sentiment, gender considerations, formal characteristics, economic history, enlightened and radical concepts of citizenship and human rights, ecological ramifications, and Britain’s growing global involvement. Part II presents twenty-five analytical chapters that attend to individual novels, some canonical and others recently recovered. These analyses engage the debates outlined in the systematic chapters, undertaking in-depth readings that both contextualize the works and draw on relevant criticism, literary theory, and cultural perspectives. The handbook’s breadth and depth, clear presentation, and lucid language make it attractive and accessible to scholar and student alike.
Author : Henry George Hahn
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 29,26 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780810817869
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Author : Jennifer Golightly
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 45,96 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1611483611
This book explores the ways in which five female radical novelists of the 1790s—Elizabeth Inchbald, Eliza Fenwick, Mary Hays, Charlotte Smith, and Mary Wollstonecraft—attempt to use the components of private life to work toward widespread social reform. These writers depict the conjugal family as the site for a potential reformation of the prejudices and flaws of the biological family. The biological family in the radical novels of female writers is fraught with problems: greed and selfishness pervert the relationships between siblings, and neglect and ignorance characterize the parenting received by the heroines. Additionally, the radical novelists, responding to representations of biological families as inherently restrictive for unmarried women, develop the notion of marriage to a certain type of man as a social duty. Marriage between two properly sensible people who have both cultivated their reason and understanding and who can live together as equals, sharing domestic responsibilities, is shown to be an ideal with the power to create social change. Positioning their depictions of marriage in opposition to earlier feminist depictions of female utopian societies, the female radical novelists of the 1790s strive to depict relationships between men and women that are characterized by cooperation, individual autonomy, and equality. What is most important about these depictions is their ultimate failure. Most of the female radical novelists find such marriages nearly impossible to conceptualize. Marriage, for many of the female radical novelists, was an institution they perceived as inextricably related to (male) concerns about property and inescapably patriarchal under the marriage laws of late eighteenth-century British society. Unions between two worthy individuals outside the boundaries of marriage are shown in the female radical novels to be equally problematic: sex inevitably is the basis for such unions, yet sex leaves women vulnerable to exploitation by men. Rather than the triumph, therefore, of what comes to be in these novels the male-associated values of property and power through marriage, the female radical novels end by suggesting an alternative community, one that will shelter those members of society who are most frequently exploited in male attempts to accumulate this property and power: women, servants, and children.