Title British women writers and the French Revolution : citizens of the world / Adriana Craciun

Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 225 pages) : illustrations Series Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print. Contents Nationalism and Internationalism -- Female Philosophers: Women and the "Word War" of the 1790s -- Mary Robinson and Radical Politics: The French Connection -- Virtue and Terror: Robespierre, Williams, and the Corruption of Revolutionary Ideals -- Citizens of the World: The emigrès in the British Imagination -- Epilogue: Napoleonic Challenges and Cosmopolitan Legacies -- Appendix I: January 1794 Timeline -- Appendix II: Tabitha Bramble to Robert Dundas, 23 January 1794 Summary This new volume in the series 'Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print' illuminates the significant extent to which British women writers cultivated a radicalized cosmopolitanism through their engagement with French revolutionary politics. British women were drawn to France for both its ancien regime associations as "the paradise of lady wits" (to quote Fanny Burney), and its revolutionary politics that extended across gender and national lines. Most visible in the 1790s writings of Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, Anna Laetitia Barbauld and Helen Maria Williams, yet persisting through the rise and fall of Napoleon in the works of Francophiles like Anne Plumptre and Lady Morgan, revolutionary cosmopolitanism flourished in women's writings of the Romantic era Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-220) and index Notes Print version record Subject English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism Revolutionary literature, English -- History and criticism Public opinion -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century English literature -- French influences. English literature -- History and criticism. Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800. Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers. European history. Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Literature. English literature English literature -- French influences English literature -- Women authors Public opinion Public opinion, British Revolutionary literature, English Women and literature SUBJECT France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Literature and the revolution France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Foreign public opinion, British Subject France Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780230501881 0230501885

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