Unsex'd Revolutionaries: Five Women Novelists of the 1790's

by Eleanor Ty

Women had been writing long before the French Revolution, but the reactionary character of the 1790s infused their work with a public importance and an urgency. The decade was one of intense argument and reflection on the role of women in society. Eleanor Ty studies the ways in which five women writers of the 1790s politicized the domestic or sentimental novel in response to oppression and exclusion. Influenced by radical post-revolution thinkers,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802077749
• ISBN13: 9780802077745
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 189 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"