The anti-Jacobin novel : British conservatism and the French Revolution

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Label

The anti-Jacobin novel : British conservatism and the French Revolution

Title remainder

British conservatism and the French Revolution

Statement of responsibility

M.O. Grenby

Creator

• Grenby, M. O., (Matthew Orville), 1970-

Subject

• Conservatism -- History -- Great Britain -- 19th century
• Conservatism in literature
• English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism
• English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• English fiction -- French influences
• France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Literature and the revolution
• Jacobins in literature
• Political fiction, English -- History and criticism
• Romanticism -- Great Britain
• Conservatism -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century

Language

eng

Summary

"The French Revolution sparked an ideological debate which also brought Britain to the brink of revolution in the 1790s. Just as radicals wrote 'Jacobin' fiction, so the fear of rebellion prompted conservatives to respond with novels of their own; indeed, these soon outnumbered the Jacobin novels. This is the first survey of the full range of conservative novels produced in Britain during the 1790s and early 1800s. M. O. Grenby examines the strategies used by conservatives in their fiction, thus shedding new light on how the anti-Jacobin campaign was understood and organised in Britain. Chapters cover the representation of revolution and rebellion, the attack on the 'new philosophy' of radicals such as Godwin and Wollstonecraft, and the way in which hierarchy is defended in these novels. Grenby's book offers an insight into the society which produced and consumed anti-Jacobin novels, and presents a case for re-examining these neglected texts."--BOOK JACKET

Member of

• Cambridge studies in Romanticism, 48

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

823/.609358

Index

index present

LC call number

PR858.F7

LC item number

G74 2001

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Cambridge studies in Romanticism

Series volume

48