Unsex'd Revolutionaries: Five Women Novelists of the 1790's
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Women had been writing long before the French Revolution, but the reactionary character of the 1790s infused their work with a public importance and an urgency. The decade was one of intense argument and reflection on the role of women in society. Eleanor Ty studies the ways in which five women writers of the 1790s politicized the domestic or sentimental novel in response to oppression and exclusion. Influenced by radical post-revolution thinkers,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0802077749
ISBN13:9780802077745
Release Date:August 1993
Publisher:University of Toronto Press
Length:189 Pages
Weight:0.71 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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