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British Women Writers and the French Revolution

Citizens of the World

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  • © 2005

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  1. Adriana Craciun
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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Adriana Craciun
    Pages 1-26

  3. Female Philosophers: Women and the ‘Word War’ of the 1790s

    • Adriana Craciun
    Pages 27-59

  4. Mary Robinson and Radical Politics: The French Connection

    • Adriana Craciun
    Pages 60-94

  5. Virtue and Terror: Robespierre, Williams and the Corruption of Revolutionary Ideals

    • Adriana Craciun
    Pages 95-137

  6. Citizens of the World: The Émigrés in the British Imagination

    • Adriana Craciun
    Pages 138-178

  7. Epilogue: Napoleonic Challenges and Cosmopolitan Legacies

    • Adriana Craciun
    Pages 179-192

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 193-225
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About this book

British Women Writers and the French Revolution provides an overview of a wide range of British women's writings on the French Revolution, from writers sympathetic to the Revolution like Mary Robinson, Helen Maria Williams, and Charlotte Smith, to anti-revolutionary writers like Hannah More and Jane West. Based on new research in French and British archives and libraries, the book uncovers little-known writings by British women, and argues that these writers developed a distinct antinationalism, in some cases even a feminist cosmopolitanism, in their responses to the European revolutionary crisis.

About the author

ADRIANA CRACIUN is the author of Fatal Women of Romanticism (2003) and the co-editor of Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution (2001). She has published widely on women's writings in the Romantic period, and teaches British literature and critical theory at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.

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