Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution"Deborah Kennedy's Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution is the first critical study to be published on this fascinating woman of letters: it is a comprehensively researched and lucidly written account of Williams's life and writing in the context of the major events taking place in England and France throughout her life. Complicating and extending biography, Kennedy's richly textured and contextual discussion of this "literary celebrity of the French Revolution" combines social history, literary history, criticism, political and social history, and intellectual history, in a discussion that will appeal to general readers even while it makes an important contribution to the field of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century studies of women writers."--BOOK JACKET. |
Contents
| 15 | |
Citizen of the World 17891792 | 46 |
English Historian of the French Revolution | 84 |
A Tour in Switzerland The Sublime and the Political | 116 |
The Napoleonic Era | 147 |
Venerable Woman of Letters | 178 |
Notes | 210 |
Bibliography | 246 |
Index | 263 |
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