Screen LibraryConversion and reform in the British novel in the 1790s
Conversion and Reform analyzes the works of a wide range of British reformists writing in the 1790s who reshaped the conventions of contemporary fiction to position the novel as a progressive political tool.
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230617858 |
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Conversion and Reform analyzes the works of a wide range of British reformists writing in the 1790s who reshaped the conventions of contemporary fiction to position the novel as a progressive political tool. "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." - Miri |
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Ebook. Originally published in: 2009. |
| Carrier Form: | 304 p. |
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9780230612297 9780230617858 : 0230617859 : |
| CLC: | I11 |
| Contents: | Introduction: An Epoch in the Mind of the Reader * The Many Faces of the Reformist Hero * Incarcerated Women and the Uses of the Gothic * Race and the Disenfranchised in 1790s Britain * Gambling, Dueling, and Social Depravity in the Haut Ton * The Dulci with the Utile: Allegorical and Utopian Romance. |