Revolutionary subjects in the English "Jacobin" novel, 1790-1805 [electronic resource] / Miriam L. Wallace.

By: Wallace, Miriam LContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culturePublication details: Cranbury, NJ : Bucknell University Press, c2009Description: 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 literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 823/.68093581 LOC classification: PR858.P6 | W35 2009Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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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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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