British Women Writers and the French Revolution, 1789–1815

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Preface and Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction
6. British Women Writers and the French Revolution, 1789–1815 3
7. Revolution and Nationalism
8. Blurring the Borders of Nation and Gender: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Character (R)evolution 33
9. Challenging Englishness: Frances Burney’s The Wanderer 63
10. “The Mild Dominion of the Moon”: Charlotte Smith and the Politics of Transcendence 85
11. Revolution and Religion
12. The Anxiety of (Feminine) Influence: Hannah More and Counterrevolution 109
13. The French, the “Long-wished-for Revolution,” and the Just War in Joanna Southcott 135
14. Napoleon, Nationalism, and the Politics of Religion in Mariana Starke’s Letters from Italy 161
15. Revolutionary Subjects
16. The New Cordays: Helen Craik and British Representations of Charlotte Corday, 1793–1800 193
17. Mary Hays’s “Female Philosopher”: Constructing Revolutionary Subjects 233
18. Indirect Dissent: “Landscaping” Female Agency in Amelia Alderson Opie’s Poems of the 1790s 261
19. Revolutionary Representation
20. Elizabeth Inchbald, Joanna Baillie, and Revolutionary Representation in the “Romantic” Period 293
21. Benevolent Historian: Helen Maria Williams and Her British Readers 317
22. The Politics of Truth and Deception: Charlotte Smith and the French Revolution 337
23. Afterword 365
24. Contributors 375
25. Index 379