Revolutionary subjects in the English "Jacobin" novel, 1790-1805 [electronic resource] / Miriam L. Wallace.
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TextSeries: Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culturePublication details: Cranbury, NJ : Bucknell University Press, c2009.Description: 314 pSubject(s): - Political fiction, English -- History and criticism
- English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism
- Human rights in literature
- Revolutionaries in literature
- English fiction -- French influences
- Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Jacobins in literature
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- PR858.P6 W35 2009eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Duplicitous subjects and the tyranny of ideology: Godwin's Things as they are; or Caleb Williams (1794) and Fenwick's Secresy (1795) -- Constructing revolutionary subjects: Wollstonecraft's rational citizen and Hays's "female philosopher" -- Revolutionary masculinities in Anna St. Ives (1792) and Hermsprong (1796) -- Female suffering and witnessing subjects in Hays's The victim of prejudice (1799) -- Subjects of property and The memoirs of Bryan Perdue (1805) -- Anti-Jacobin re-visions and relational subjects in Edmund Oliver (1798) and Adeline Mowbray (1805) -- Anti-Jacobin parody and the reformist continuum: Memoirs of modern philosophers (1805) -- Conclusion: revolutionary subjectivities and rights discourse.
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