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The English Jacobin Novel on Rights, Property, and the Law: Critiquing the Contract.(Book review)
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September 22, 2005|
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Nancy E. Johnson, The English Jacobin Novel on Rights, Property, and the Law: Critiquing the Contract
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) vii + 215 $65.00./[pounds sterling]47.50.
On first examination, the main strengths of Nancy E. Johnson's The English Jacobin Novel on Rights, Property, and the Law: Critiquing the Contract appear to be described in the title. Yet Johnson's book profoundly challenges established studies of political fiction at the end of the eighteenth century. Because the materials are as unfamiliar as they are rich, and because one of the ...
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The Anti-Jacobin Novel: British Conservatism and the French Revolution. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Albion
; M. O. Grenby. The Anti-Jacobin Novel: British Conservatism and the...the Terror, by "the Anti-Jacobin novel," a genre that held sway across...constitutes the first anti-Jacobin novel. The descent into the Terror...
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From Roman to Roman: the Jacobin novel and the Roman legacy in the 1790s.
Magazine article from: Studies in the Novel
; Introduction: Rome and the Jacobin Novel In his 1778 essay "On Novel Reading," Reverend Vicessimus Knox blames "Novels" for their contribution to what he perceives...
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THE JOYS OF SUMMER: WALLACE CAPS STELLAR SEASON BY ATTENDING SELECTIVE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES INSTITUTE
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...Enlightening Romanticism, Romancing the Enlightenment: British Fiction 1750-1830 and Revolutionary Subjects in the English 'Jacobin' Novel, 1790-1805, released respectively by Ashgate Publishing and Bucknell University Press. The focus of the...
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Novel and History in Anti-Jacobin Satire.
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies
; ...writes George Walker in the dedication to his anti-Jacobin novel, The Vagabond, 'that Romances are only Histories which...of satire and history within the framework of the anti-Jacobin novel was, however, only briefly sustained. Michael McKeon argues...
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Books: BIOGRAPHY: Did the roof cave in for you, dear? Lady Hester: Queen of the East By Lorna Gibb FABER pounds 14.99 pounds 13.99 (P&P FREE) 08700 798 897; From having sex in tents to chatting with mass-murderers, nothing fazed this adventurous aristo. By Patricia Duncker
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday
; ...expectations always exceeded her limited income. Her early life was spent on the family estate in Kent where her father, an English Jacobin, made everybody miserable with his rages. Hester was a niece of the long-serving Prime Minister, William Pitt the Younger...
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A prince of pain ; Digging up the Dead By Druin Burch CHATTO & WINDUS [pound]20 (276pp)
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Cooper visited Paris in 1792, met French physicians and witnessed the September Massacres. At Guy's, he befriended the "English Jacobin" John Thelwall, a leader of the radical London Corresponding Society who had mastered advanced medical theories. In the...
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Judith Thompson, editor. John Thelwall's The Peripatetic (1793).(Book review)
Magazine article from: Studies in Romanticism
; ...poetry, the sentimental novel, poetry of place, the experiments of Lawrence Sterne (whom Thelwall references), the Jacobin novel, the political pamphlet. The Peripatetic literally combines these within a dominant structure of a narrator who walks throughout...
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Crossing genre, gender and race in Elizabeth Hamilton's Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in the Novel
; ...difficult writer to categorize with more recent studies ranging in their description of Hamilton as an anti-Jacobin, English-Jacobin or pro-revolutionary, sentimental or satirical writer, or a novelist of manners, and her works classified as satirical...
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