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. List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
British Women Writers and the French Revolution, 17891815 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, 17931800 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
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Rebellious Hearts
SUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory Michelle A. Masse, editor
Rebellious Hearts
British Women Writers and the French Revolution
EDITED BY Adriana Craciun and Kari E. Lokke
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Rebellious hearts : British women writers and the French Revolution / edited by Adriana Craciun and Kari E. Lokke. p. cm. — (SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory) Includes index. ISBN 0-7914-4969-6 (alk. paper) — ISBN 0-7014-4970-X (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. English literature—French influences. 2. France—History— Revolution, 1789–1799—Literature and the revolution. 3. Women and literature—Great Britain—History—18th century. 4. Women and liter-ature—Great Britain—History—19th century. 5. English literature— Women authors—History and criticism. 6. English literature—18th century—History and criticism. 7. English literature—19th century— History and criticism. 8. Revolutionary literature, English—History and criticism. 9. France—History—Revolution, 1789–1799—Influence. 10. Feminism and literature—Great Britain. 11. Romanticism—Great Britain. 12. France—In literature. I. Craciun, Adriana, 1967– II. Lokke, Kari. III. Series.
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List of Illustrations
Contents
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’sThe 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
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Napoleon, Nationalism, and the Politics of Religion in Mariana Starke’sLetters 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
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Cover: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Maria Cosway, 1782. Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth. Reproduced by permission of the Duke of Devonshire and the Chatsworth Settlement Trustees. Photo-graph: Photographic Survey, Courtauld Institute of Art.