DesmondBroadview Press, 30 ago 2001 - 488 pagine Desmond is a political novel about the French Revolution. It is Charlotte Smith’s only epistolary work, and it is her most politically radical piece. Written in response to Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, Smith’s Desmond fuses political discussion with romance, social satire and a suspenseful plot revolving around a liberal hero desperately in love with a woman who is married to a drunken anti-revolutionary. Whereas Burke represented the French Revolution as a sentimental drama, Smith draws out the parallel between political and domestic tyranny to show how the disenfranchisement of British women under eighteenth-century common law resembled the political tyranny of the French absolutist monarchy. |
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Charlotte Smith Antje Blank, Janet Todd. REY BO FR b Desmond Charlotte Smith edited by Antje Blank & Janet Todd DESMOND Charlotte Smith This One Ridley souly . Mr Charlotte. Front Cover.
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Charlotte Smith Antje Blank, Janet Todd. © 2001 Antje Blank and Janet Todd All rights reserved . The use of any part of this publication reproduced , transmitted in any form or by any means , electronic , mechanical , photocopying ...
Charlotte Smith Antje Blank, Janet Todd. Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Charlotte Smith : A Brief Chronology Works by Charlotte Smith Further Reading A Note on the Text 69 7 34 36 37 39 DESMOND Preface Volume I 45 48 Volume II ...
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A Brief Chronology | 34 |
Notes | 415 |
Appendix A Extract from Edmund Burke | 445 |
Appendix E Charlotte Smith Letters | 482 |