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.

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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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Book Title: British Women Writers and the French Revolution
Book Subtitle: Citizens of the World
Authors: Adriana Craciun
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230501881
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-0235-1Published: 01 August 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-50810-5Published: 01 January 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-50188-1Published: 01 August 2005
Series ISSN: 2634-6516
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6524
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 225
Topics: Fiction, European History, Modern History, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, British and Irish Literature, History of France

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

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 Émigrés in the British Imagination

Epilogue: Napoleonic Challenges and Cosmopolitan Legacies

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