British Women Writers and the French Revolution: Citizens of the World (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print)
Brand: MACMILLAN
Author: Craciun, A.
Edition: 1st ed. 2005
Number Of Pages: 237
EAN: 9781349508105
Release Date: 01-01-2005
Languages: English
Binding: paperback
Package Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
Details: British Women Writers and the French Revolution provides an overview of a wide range of British women's writings on the French Revolution, from writers sympathetic to the Revolution like Mary Robinson, Helen Maria Williams, and Charlotte Smith, to anti-revolutionary writers like Hannah More and Jane West. Based on new research in French and British archives and libraries, the book uncovers little-known writings by British women, and argues that these writers developed a distinct antinationalism, in some cases even a feminist cosmopolitanism, in their responses to the European revolutionary crisis.