Women writers english nation in 1790s

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 6
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
Dedication......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 11
CHAPTER 1 Introduction: Romantic belongings......Page 13
CHAPTER 2 Domesticating the sublime: Ann Radcliffe and Gothic dissent......Page 30
LITERATURE AND THE FOUNDATION OF NATIONS......Page 31
ENGLISH ROMANCE......Page 36
PRODUCTIVE PLEASURES......Page 38
CATHOLIC TASTES......Page 43
PROTESTANT AESTHETICS AND THE MODERN SELF......Page 47
THE RETURN OF THE REPRESSED......Page 49
PROGRESSIVE PILGRIMS......Page 51
CORRECTING THE SUBLIME......Page 55
PICTURESQUE RETIREMENT......Page 57
CHAPTER 3 Forgotten sentiments: Helen Maria Williams’s ‘Letters from France’......Page 60
SALON SOCIABILITY......Page 65
THE PLEASURES OF COMMERCE......Page 69
THE TYRANNY OF TRANSPARENCY......Page 77
NATIONAL ROMANCE......Page 83
EPISTOLARY EXCHANGE......Page 86
SILENT EXILE: ‘‘DESMOND’’ AND THE LIMITS OF COSMOPOLITANISM......Page 93
GOING HOME: ‘‘THE BANISHED MAN’’ AND EUROPEAN ÉMIGRÉS......Page 102
A NATION AT WAR WITH ITSELF: ‘‘THE OLD MANOR HOUSE’’ AND THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE......Page 108
GOING WEST: ‘‘THE YOUNG PHILOSOPHER’’......Page 114
CHAPTER 5 Mary Wollstonecraft and the national body......Page 120
‘ALL HIGHER KNOWLEDGE IN HER PRESENCE FALLS’......Page 125
BARTERING THE INTERESTS OF NATIONS......Page 129
IMPERIOUS SYMPATHIES......Page 139
THE WOMAN WHO WOULD BE KING......Page 142
CHAPTER 6 Patrician, populist and patriot: Hannah More’s counter-revolutionary nationalism......Page 145
‘A NEW SIMILITUDE WHEREWITH TO COMPARE MY WICKEDNESS’......Page 146
PRACTICAL PIETY......Page 149
HOME ECONOMICS......Page 154
IMAGINATIVE LABOUR......Page 157
THE RELIGION OF THE HEART......Page 160
IRREGULAR THINGS......Page 164
THE BLAGDON PERSECUTION......Page 168
Afterword......Page 171
1 INTRODUCTION: ROMANTIC BELONGINGS......Page 175
2 DOMESTICATING THE SUBLIME: ANN RADCLIFFE AND GOTHIC DISSENT......Page 179
3 FORGOTTEN SENTIMENTS: HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS’S LETTERS FROM FRANCE......Page 184
4 EXILES AND ÉMIGRÉS: THE WANDERINGS OF CHARLOTTE SMITH......Page 190
5 MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT AND THE NATIONAL BODY......Page 192
6 PATRICIAN, POPULIST AND PATRIOT: HANNAH MORE’S COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY NATIONALISM......Page 194
AFTERWORD......Page 197
PRIMARY SOURCES......Page 198
SECONDARY SOURCES......Page 201
Index......Page 207