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" Conversion and reform in the British novel in the 1790s : "
A.A. Markley.
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BL
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1035570
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b789940
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| Main Entry
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Markley, A. A.
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Conversion and reform in the British novel in the 1790s : : a revolution of opinions /\ A.A. Markley.
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1st ed.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2009.
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xvii, 278 pages ;; 22 cm
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0230612296
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: 9780230612297
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-265) and index.
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| Contents
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Chronology of works published in England, 1788-1805 -- Introduction : an epoch in the mind of the reader -- 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 -- Dulci with the utile: Allegorical and Utopian romance.
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"Dramatically expanding the boundaries of the British "Jacobin" novel, Conversion and Reform in the British Novel in the 1790s analyzes the works of a wide range of British reformists writing in the 1790s, including William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, and Maria Edgeworth, who reshaped the conventions of contemporary fiction to position the novel as a progressive political tool. Rather than aiming to launch a bloody revolution, these authors worked to initiate social and political reform in such as women's right, abolition, the Jewish question, and the leveling of the class system in Britain by converting the general public, one reader at a time."--Jacket.
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English fiction-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
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Literature and society-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century.
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Social movements in literature.
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Social problems in literature.
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English fiction.
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Literature and society.
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Social movements in literature.
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Social problems in literature.
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Great Britain.
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823/.6
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PR851.M36 2009
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