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Literary historians working in the period of the late eighteenth century tend to focus either on authors of the Enlightenment or authors who were Romanticists. This collection of essays focuses on sub-genres of the novel form that evolved during the end of the century. These were novels-frequently written by women-that reflect the intersections between literature and popular culture. Using a representative reading of these works and current academic thinking on gender and class, the contributors to this volume offer a new perspective with which to view the novels of the 1790s.
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English fiction--18th century--History and criticism, Women and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century, Literature and society--Great Britain--History--18th century, Popular literature--Great Britain--History and criticism, English fiction--Wome
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1999
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PR858.W6W66 1999eb
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820.9/006
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English fiction--18th century--History and criticism, Women and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century, Literature and society--Great Britain--History--18th century, Popular literature--Great Britain--History and criticism, English fiction--Wome
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Women, Revolution, and the Novels of the 1790s
Edited by Linda Lang-Peralta
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Copyright 1999 by Michigan State University Press The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (R 1997).
Michigan State University Press East Lansing, Michigan 48823-5202
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Women, revolution, and the novels of the 1790s / edited by Linda Lang-Peralta. p. cm. "A colleagues book: early women writer's series no. 6." Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-87013-519-8 (alk. paper) 1. English fiction18th centuryHistory and criticism. 2. Women and literatureGreat BritainHistory18th century. 3. Literature and societyGreat BritainHistory18th century. 4. Popular literature Great BritainHistory and criticism. 5. English fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism. 6. Revolutionary literature, English History and criticism. 7. FranceHistoryRevolution, 1789-1799 Influence. I. Lang-Peralta, Linda. PR858.W6 W66 1999 820.9'006dc21 99-050547
Book and cover design by Sharp Des!gns, Lansing, MI
A Colleagues Series Publication Colleagues Series Editor: Robert Uphaus
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Contents
Acknowledgments
vii
Introduction
ix
Women and Public Space in the Novel of the 1790s
Catherine H. Decker
1
Revolutionary Domesticity in Charlotte Smith's Desmond
Katherine Binhammer
25
The Crowd and the Public in Godwin's Caleb Williams
Carl Fisher
47
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Injustice in the Works of Godwin and Wollstonecraft
Glynis Ridley
69
Radcliffe, Godwin, and Self-Possession in the 1790s
Barbara M. Benedict
89
Lewis's The Monk and the Matter of Reading
Clara D. Mclean
111
The Imprisoned Female Body in Mary Hays's The Victim of Prejudice
Eleanor Ty
133
Masculinity and Morality in Elizabeth Inchbald's Nature and Art
Shawn Lisa Maurer
155
Bibliography
177
Contributors
191
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Acknowledgments
I am grateful to those who have generously given of time, support, and expertise to move this project forward. Robert Uphaus helped to shape the book and prepare it for publication. At various points in the process, Jim Aubrey, Timothy Erwin, Bill Hamilton, Tracey Schwarz, Annette Tanner, Susan H. Wood and others offered valuable editorial advice. Katherine Binhammer contributed substantially to the bibliography. Joan Griffin, Pat McAnish, and Shaun McAnish provided patient and timely technological assistance. A grant from the President's Professional Development Fund at The Metropolitan State College of Denver provided much appreciated support during the final stage of the project. Special thanks also go to John and Barbara Wertin and Catherine Lang. Finally, for practical assistance and constant support, my heartfelt appreciation goes to Tim Peralta, to whom this book is dedicated
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Introduction
To astonish by the marvellous, and appal by the terrific, have lately been the favourite designs of many writers of novels; who, in pursuit of those effects, have frequently appeared to desert, and sometimes have really transgressed the bounds of nature and possibility. We cannot approve of these extravagances. The British Critic, 17961
British novels of the 1790s have often been deemed, in their own day and in ours, excessive, bizarre, or extreme. The indictment above clearly suggests the extent to which the boundaries of prose fiction were shifting. As the essays in this volume demonstrate, however, these extravagant novels also dared to focus on gender, oppression, and rights in this revolutionary period, and in ways in which many readers have found revealing. Of course, the perspective from which we view these texts will significantly affect our judgement of them. Traditionally literary critics who have commented on them have been either dix-huitimistes more familiar with Jonathan Swift, Laurence Sterne, and Samuel Richardson, or Romanticists more at home with William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Percy and Mary Shelley. Both groups have tended to view the novels of the 1790s as a literary badlands, marked by strangely-shaped formations, a desert area generally to be avoided
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