Adriana Craciun & Kari E. Lokke 
Rebellious Hearts [PDF ebook] 
British Women Writers and the French Revolution

This pathbreaking collection engages in the important new work of rediscovering the hundreds of British women writing during the Romantic period, women who we now realize were central, not marginal, to the poetics and ideologies of Romanticism. Yet no previous volume has focused on British women’s responses to the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars, or on their participation in the social, economic, religious, and poetic debates surrounding these political conflicts. As the first book to represent the full spectrum of women’s participation in the Revolutionary debates, Rebellious Hearts uncovers a rich new field of literary and historical scholarship.

Table des matières

List of Illustrations



Preface and Acknowledgments




Introduction



British Women Writers and the French Revolution, 1789–1815


Adriana Craciun and Kari E. Lokke




Revolution and Nationalism



Blurring the Borders of Nation and Gender: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Character (R)evolution


Jan Wellington



Challenging Englishness: Frances Burney’s The Wanderer


Maria Jerinic



“The Mild Dominion of the Moon”: Charlotte Smith and the Politics of Transcendence


Kari E. Lokke




Revolution and Religion



The Anxiety of (Feminine) Influence: Hannah More and Counter-Revolution


Angela Keane



The French, the “Long-wished-for Revolution, ” and the Just War in Joanna Southcott


Kevin Binfield



Napoleon, Nationalism, and the Politics of Religion in Mariana Starke’s Letters from Italy


Jeanne Moskal




Revolutionary Subjects



The New Cordays: Helen Craik and British Representations of Charlotte Corday, 1793–1800


Adriana Craciun



Mary Hays’s “Female Philosopher”: Constructing Revolutionary Subjects


Miriam L. Wallace



Indirect Dissent: “Landscaping” Moral Agency in Amelia Alderson Opie’s Poems of the 1790s


Ann Frank Wake




Revolutionary Representation



Elizabeth Inchbald, Joanna Baillie, and Revolutionary Representation in the “Romantic” Period


Terence Allan Hoagwood



Benevolent Historian: Helen Maria Williams and Her British Readers


Deborah Kennedy



The Politics of Truth and Deception: Charlotte Smith and the French Revolution


Judith Davis Miller



Afterword


Madelyn Gutwirth



Contributors



Index

A propos de l’auteur

Adriana Craciun is Prew-Smith Byron Lecturer in English, University of Nottingham. She is the editor of
Zofloya by Charlotte Dacre.
Kari E. Lokke is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of
Gérard de Nerval: The Poet as Social Visionary.