Anti-Jacobin novels
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書誌事項
Anti-Jacobin novels
Pickering & Chatto, 2005
- : set, v. 1-5
- : set, v. 6-10
内容説明・目次
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: set, v. 1-5 ISBN 9781851967766
内容説明
A selection of Anti-Jacobin novels reprinted in full with annotations. The set includes works by male and female writers holding a range of political positions within the Anti-Jacobin camp, and represents the French Revolution, American Revolution, Irish Rebellion and political unrest in Scotland.
目次
- Part I Volume 1 Henry James Pye, The Democrat (1796)
- Henry James Pye, The Aristocrat (1799) Reflecting a merry sort of anti-sans culottism, Pye's novel, The Democrat, satirizes French participation in the American struggle for independence. Pye's sarcasms, though restrained, make abundantly clear that, as far as he is concerned, the most remarkable characteristic of the French and American revolutionaries is their gullibility in the presence of false prophets. Volume 2 Charles Lloyd, Edmund Oliver (1798) This novel provides an interesting position within the anti-Jacobin camp, in that it is at once a radical novel, and a rather broad satire on radicalism. Maintaining a fairly full Jacobin agenda, the novel simultaneously assails Godwin's radical scepticism - repudiating in particular Godwin's denial that promises can be binding, and his argument against marriage. Volume 3 Mrs Bullock, Dorothea
- Or, A Ray of the New Light (1801) Restaging the fall of the Bastille in mid-1790s Ireland, the author attempts to bring the threat of Revolution closer to home - a threat that was obviously further accentuated by the Irish Rebellion of 1798. The novel is full of gory detail, and paints in brilliant colours the murders and other acts of violence perpetrated by the Irish Jacobins. It has only recently been attributed to Mrs Bullock. Volume 4 Robert Bisset, Douglas
- Or, The Highlander (1800) vol. 1 A man who proudly referred to himself as 'that zealous Anti-Jacobin, Dr Bisset' and one of the most prominent - and vitriolic - reviewers for the Anti-Jacobin, Bisset waged a bitter and vicious war against every enemy of 'Christianity and natural religion, of monarchy, or order, subordination, property and justice'. The main butt of Bisset's razor-sharp satire in Douglas is Mary Wollstonecraft, who appears both as herself, and as a travesty of herself, called Lady Mary Manhunt. Volume 5 Robert Bisset, Douglas
- Or, The Highlander (1800) vol. 2
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: set, v. 6-10 ISBN 9781851967810
内容説明
A selection of Anti-Jacobin novels reprinted in full with annotations. The set includes works by male and female writers holding a range of political positions within the Anti-Jacobin camp, and represents the French Revolution, American Revolution, Irish Rebellion and political unrest in Scotland.
目次
- Part II Volume 6 Anon., Berkeley Hall
- Or, The Pupil of Experience (1796) Berkeley Hall is without a doubt one of the most entertaining novels of the genre. It is also exceptional in that the action is almost entirely set in America . Indeed, though the plot and the novel's central concerns are intricately tied up with the contemporary British Jacobin/anti-Jacobin debate, the novel displays such detailed insights into recent American history and politics - with the action ostensibly taking place before the American Revolution, during the French and Indian War in the late 1750s - that it deserves a prominent place in early American literature, as well as in 1790s British literature. Volume 7 Jane West, A Tale of the Times (1799) Jane West's third novel, published when anti-Jacobin sentiments were at their strongest, differs from most of the other novels in this collection in that the author does not so much take on political as moral issues, and in that she does so within a context of nationalism and femininity. Volume 8 Isaac D'Israeli, Vaurien
- Or, Sketches of the Times (1797) This novel belongs to the sub-genre of the anti-Jacobin novel whose main aim is to whip up conspiracy-mania amongst its readers (Charles Lucas's The Infernal Quixote also belongs to this category). Although dismissing with scorn the new philosophers for having disfigured the age with equal measures of scepticism and fanaticism, the novel at the same time displays considerable wit and understanding. The novel is also interesting for its caricature of Godwin (as 'Mr Subtile') and its dismissal of Wollstonecraft's 'models of voluptuous freedom'. Volume 9 Sophia King, Waldorf
- Or, The Dangers of Philosophy (1798) The novel's hero, Waldorf, is an impulsive youth who comes under the influence of the emancipated Lok, puts into action his purely speculative notions, proselytizes, and strews his path with victims. Through the juxtaposition of a speculative (Lok) and a practical philosopher (Waldorf) this novel presents a strong plea for maintaining and cherishing the domestic economy of hearth and home. Edward Dubois, St Godwin: A Tale of the 16th, 17th, and 18th c. (1800) It is a measure of the degree of hatred the figure of William Godwin evoked amongst the anti-Jacobins that he and, more particularly, his novel St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century were singled out for special satirical treatment in this novel. Killing two Revolutions with one stone, Dubois's satire is a brilliantly witty parody of Godwin's 'radical' change of tack from the uncompromising rationalist that wrote the Enquiry and Caleb Williams to the champion of the domestic economy and the 'affections of the heart' that wrote St Leon . Though inaccurate, the parody is highly entertaining. Volume 10 Charles Lucas, The Infernal Quixote: A Tale of the Day (1801) This novel introduces us to a range of new philosophers, including the 'Virtuosos' who, according to Miss Whitney, 'hate the Government because it is a modern fabric and use all their might to overturn the State ...'. The book's main villain, Marauder, is a guiding spirit in the Irish Rebellion of 1798. Presented as an emissary of Hell, Marauder is determined to conquer for his master the yet unvanquished island of Britain . Marauder's new philosophy is exposed as vanity, hypocrisy and self-interest, whilst his opponent's (Wilson Wilson's) faith in the Christian doctrine and social fabric are held up as Britain 's best defence against the forces of evil and radical thought.
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