Anti-Jacobin Novels, Parts I and II

Download or read book Anti-Jacobin Novels, Parts I and II written by W. M. Verhoeven and published by . This book was released on 2005-02-01 with total page 3704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ten-volume reset edition reveals the flipside of Romantic-era literature and politics. Until fairly recently critical studies had focused on pro-Revolution writers, almost to the exclusion of the anti-Jacobin novelists who in the 1790s were part of an active conservative backlash and produced a significant body of writing. These novels are increasingly being considered an important part of the Romantic corpus, resulting in a growing demand among academics for the resource texts. This edition provides a comprehensive selection of Anti-Jacobin novels reprinted in full with expert annotation.It includes works by male and female writers holding a range of political positions within the Anti-Jacobin camp, and represents not only the French Revolution but the American Revolution, the Irish Rebellion and the political unrest in Scotland. The conservative authors are often explicitly opposed to the emancipation of women, and the edition is of interest to scholars of women's studies as well as Romanticism.