Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
List of Illustrations Introduction 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 migr s 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 Works Cited Index
Synopsis
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.