Author: Robert BagePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Hermsprong
Author: Robert BageMan as he is not; or, Hermsprong ... By the author of “Man as he is” i.e. Robert Bage . Third edition
Author: HERMSPRONG.Revolutionary Subjects in the English "Jacobin" Novel, 1790-1805
Author: Miriam L. WallacePublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 0838757057
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
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.
Robert Bage's Hermsprong, Or, Man as He is Not
Author: Robert BagePublisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The first edited and fully annotated edition of Robert Bage's Hermsprong or Man As He Is Not (1796), this book will make accessible in accurate form an English novel that is lively in the reading and important in its historical interest. Walter Scott, Jane Austen, and Thomas Love Peacock, among others, were attracted to it. As Professor Tave's introduction shows, Hermsprong has political and social interest because it is in part a witty response to the English attitude toward the French Revolution and to the rights of man and woman. The novel was reviewed enthusiastically by Mary Wollstonecraft, and it was considered dangerous politically and morally by some of its nineteenth-century critics. This edition has a critical and historical introduction, bibliography, chronology of the author's life, a note on the text, the text itself with full annotations and textual notes. Both the text and the commentary will be valuable to those who have an interest in the English novel or in the literature and the history of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Conversion and Reform in the British Novel in the 1790s
Author: A. MarkleyPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230617859
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Conversion and Reform analyzes the work of those British reformists writing in the 1790s who reshaped the conventions of fiction to reposition the novel as a progressive political tool. Includes new readings of key figures such as Mary Wollstonecraft and Thomas Holcroft.
The English Jacobin Novel on Rights, Property and the Law
Author: N. JohnsonPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230503381
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
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.
Unsex'd Revolutionaries
Author: Eleanor Rose TyPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802077745
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Using historical and feminist psycho-linguistic studies as a base, Ty explores some of the complexities encountered in the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, Helen Maria Williams, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Charlotte Smith
Americomania and the French Revolution Debate in Britain, 1789–1802
Author: Wil VerhoevenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107471087
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
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.
The Exalted Heroine and the Triumph of Order
Author: K. G. HallPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780333549391
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The first part of this study provides background information to the eighteenth-century English novel, and includes discussion of the relationship between literature and ideology, literary realism, the fiction reading/purchasing public, and authorial intention and technique. The second focuses on seven diverse, yet representative, novels of the period, paying particular attention to the presentation of class, women and religion in the works examined. Whilst no grand theory is proposed, the writer seeks to utilise an approach derived from sociological and Marxist thought, and to employ it as a practical mode of criticism. Although some familiarity with the novels is assumed in the individual analyses of each work, the first part of the study should be of interest to anyone curious about eighteenth-century fiction and the more general issues considered.
Motives in English Fiction
Author: Robert Naylor WhitefordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
"The material presents is not only a history of English fiction, but a view of its variations in atmosphere, motivation, dialogue, and characterization." -- Preface.