The French Revolution Debate And The British Novel 1790 1814
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Author | : Morgan Rooney |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1611484766 |
This study examines how debates about history during the French Revolution informed and changed the nature of the British novel between 1790 and 1814. During these years, intersections between history, political ideology, and fiction, as well as the various meanings of the term "history" itself, were multiple and far reaching. Morgan Rooney elucidates these subtleties clearly and convincingly. While political writers of the 1790s--Burke, Price, Mackintosh, Paine, Godwin, Wollstonecraft, and others--debate the historical meaning of the Glorious Revolution as a prelude to broader ideological arguments about the significance of the past for the present and future, novelists engage with this discourse by representing moments of the past or otherwise vying to enlist the authority of history to further a reformist or loyalist agenda. Anti-Jacobin novelists such as Charles Walker, Robert Bisset, and Jane West draw on Burkean historical discourse to characterize the reform movement as ignorant of the complex operations of historical accretion. For their part, reform-minded novelists such as Charlotte Smith, William Godwin, and Maria Edgeworth travesty Burke's tropes and arguments so as to undermine and then redefine the category of history. As the Revolution crisis recedes, new novel forms such as Edgeworth's regional novel, Lady Morgan's national tale, and Jane Porter's early historical fiction emerge, but historical representation--largely the legacy of the 1790s' novel--remains an increasingly pronounced feature of the genre. Whereas the representation of history in the novel, Rooney argues, is initially used strategically by novelists involved in the Revolution debate, it is appropriated in the early nineteenth century by authors such as Edgeworth, Morgan, and Porter for other, often related ideological purposes before ultimately developing into a stable, nonpartisan, aestheticized feature of the form as practiced by Walter Scott. The French Revolution Debate and the British Novel, 1790-1814 demonstrates that the transformation of the novel at this fascinating juncture of British political and literary history contributes to the emergence of the historical novel as it was first realized in Scott's Waverley (1814).
Author | : Morgan Gordon Rooney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : English fiction |
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Author | : Morgan Gordon Rooney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 540 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : University of Ottawa theses |
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Author | : Gregory Claeys |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 3536 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781851963201 |
Largely instigated by Edmund Burke's "Reflections on the Revolution in France" (1790), the French Revolution provoked a fierce political debate in Britain. Equally divided between reform and loyalist literature, this collection reprints over 100 contributions to the debate.
Author | : Pamela Clemit |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2011-02-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107493900 |
The French Revolution ignited the biggest debate on politics and society in Britain since the Civil War 150 years earlier. The public controversy lasted from the initial, positive reaction to French events in 1789 to the outlawing of the radical societies in 1799. This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. It contains thirteen specially commissioned essays by an international team of historians and literary scholars, a chronology of events and publications, and an extensive guide to further reading. Six essays concentrate on the principal writers of the Revolution controversy: Burke, Paine, Godwin and Wollstonecraft. Others deal with popular radical culture, counter-revolutionary culture, the distinctive contribution of women writers, novels of opinion, drama, and poetry. This volume will serve as a comprehensive yet accessible reference work for students, advanced researchers and scholars.
Author | : Alfred Cobban |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 1873 |
Genre | : France |
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Author | : Gregory Claeys |
Publisher | : Pickering & Chatto Limited |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1995-01-01 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : 9781851963270 |
Author | : W. M. Verhoeven |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : 9781107459502 |
This book explores the evolution of British identity and participatory politics in the 1790s. Wil Verhoeven argues that in the course of the French Revolution debate in Britain, the idea of 'America' came to represent for the British people the choice between two diametrically opposed models of social justice and political participation. Yet the American Revolution controversy in the 1790s was by no means an isolated phenomenon. The controversy began with the American crisis debate of the 1760s and 1770s, which overlapped with a wider Enlightenment debate about transatlantic utopianism. All of these debates were based in the material world on the availability of vast quantities of cheap American land. Verhoeven investigates the relation that existed throughout the eighteenth century between American soil and the discourse of transatlantic utopianism: between America as a physical, geographical space, and 'America' as a utopian/dystopian idea-image.
Author | : Linda Van Netten Blimke |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2022-07-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1684484057 |
By examining four sentimental travelogues written by British women travelers during the American and French Revolutions, Political Affairs of the Heart argues that this genre, by combining eyewitness authority with the language of sensibility, constitutes a significant site of women's engagement in national and gender politics.
Author | : Alfred Cobban |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1970 |
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