The French Revolution and the British Novel in the Romantic Period

Editors A.D. Cousins, Dani Napton, and Stephanie Russo are all affiliated with Macquarie U., Australia. They provide an introductory chapger before presentation of nine scholarly essays (including their own). Contributions address: children's literature and the French revolution; Charlotte Smith's The Banished Man; Wollstonecraft's feminist adaptation of the revolutionary novel; the novels of Frances Burney; Mary Robinson and androgyny; Jane Austen; and Mary Shelley's The Last Man, among other topics. Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)