Books

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Revolutionary subjects in the English "Jacobin" novel Revolutionary subjects in the English "Jacobin" novel Miriam L. Wallace *Revolutionary Subjects in the English "Jacobin" Novel* engages ongoing debates on subject formation and rights discourse through the so-called "English Jacobin" novels. Ostensibly celebrating the un… OL13650756W
Force or fraud Force or fraud Toni Bowers This text tells the story of how rape and seduction came to be distinguished according to measures of women's resistance and consent in low-brow 'amatory' writing, by writers such as Aphra Behn, Dela… OL16596951W
The French Revolution Debate and the British Novel, 1790–1814 The French Revolution Debate and the British Novel, 1790–1814 Morgan Rooney This study examines how debates about history during the French Revolution informed and changed the nature of the British novel between 1790 and 1814. During these years, intersections between histor… OL16815556W
The English novel in history, 1700-1780 The English novel in history, 1700-1780 John J. Richetti The English Novel in History 1700-1780 provides students with specific contexts for the early novel in response to a new understanding of eighteenth-century Britain. It traces the social and moral re… OL1830261W
Reinventing Liberty Reinventing Liberty Fiona Price Sir Walter Scott is often regarded as the first historical novelist. Reinventing Liberty challenges this view by returning us to the rich range of historical fiction written in the late 18th and earl… OL20930390W
The English Novel, 1700-1740 The English Novel, 1700-1740 Robert Ignatius Le Tellier "The English novel written between 1700 and 1740 remains a comparatively neglected area. In addition to Daniel Defoe, whose Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders are landmarks in the history of English f… OL2682298W
The age of reasons The age of reasons Wendy Motooka The Age of Reasons reads Don Quixote as a parodic example of eighteenth-century "reason." Reason was supposed to be universally compelling, yet it was also thought to be empirically derived. Quixotic… OL2739372W
The rise of the woman novelist The rise of the woman novelist Jane Spencer "Feminist studies of women's writing have tended to concentrate on writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. This book, which examines women novelists from Aphra Behn to Fanny Burney, is intended to re… OL4302534W
The anthology and the rise of the novel The anthology and the rise of the novel Leah Price The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel brings together two traditionally antagonistic fields, book history and narrative theory, to challenge established theories of 'the rise of the novel'. Leah Pr… OL53045W
Gothic & Gender Gothic & Gender Donna Heiland Gothic novels tell terrifying stories of patriarchal societies that thrive on the oppression or even outright sacrifice of women and others. Donna Heiland's Gothic and Gender offers a historically in… OL6032200W