Conversion and Reform in the British Novel in the 1790s
A Revolution of Opinions
Authors: Markley, A.
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- About this book
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Conversion and Reform analyzes the work of those British reformists writing in the 1790s who reshaped the conventions of fiction to reposition the novel as a progressive political tool. Includes new readings of key figures such as Mary Wollstonecraft and Thomas Holcroft.
- About the authors
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A.A. MARKELY is Associate Professor of English, Penn State University, Brandywine, USA.
- Reviews
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"Markley's Conversion and Reform in the British Novel in the 1790s is an intelligent, comprehensive, accessible study of reformist fiction in the late eighteenth century, and it will be of much use to scholars and students of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literature." - Eighteenth-Century Fiction
"An expansive and inclusive study, Markley s Conversion and Reform in the British Novel in the 1790s reconfigures the familiar ground of the Jacobin and anti-Jacobin novels by posing a larger concept of reformist literature. This audacious tour impressively ties together a wider range of works than has been considered previously, highlighting the full scope of calls for reform across the political spectrum. This will be an essential reference for anyone interested in nascent debates on the nature of gender, race, ethnicity, and manhood conducted in novels at the end of the 1700s." - Miriam L. Wallace, Associate Professor of English, New College of Florida
"Markley is an accomplished scholar. Conversion and Reform in the British Novel in the 1790s examines numerous texts that have fallen into obscurity and thus promises to expand scholarly knowledge of the novels of the Romantic (or revolutionary) era. In addition, the historical and cultural contexts supplied in the chapters on race and upper-class vices are lucid and instructive." - William D. Brewer, Professor of English, Appalachian State University
"Markley's Conversion and Reform in the British Novel in the 1790s is an intelligent, comprehensive, accessible study of reformist fiction in the late eighteenth century, and it will be of much use to scholars and students of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literature." - Nancy E. Johnson, SUNY New Paltz
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-21
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The Many Faces of the Reformist Hero
Pages 23-55
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Incarcerated Women and the Uses of the Gothic
Pages 57-86
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Race and the Disenfranchised in 1790S Britain
Pages 87-124
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Gambling, Dueling, and Social Depravity in the Haut Ton
Pages 125-150
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Conversion and Reform in the British Novel in the 1790s
- Book Subtitle
- A Revolution of Opinions
- Authors
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- A. Markley
- Copyright
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-230-61785-8
- DOI
- 10.1057/9780230617858
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-230-61229-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-37709-1
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIX, 278
- Topics
