Rebellious Hearts

Adriana Craciun is Prew-Smith Byron Lecturer in English, University of Nottingham. She is the editor of Zofloya by Charlotte Dacre. Kari E. Lokke is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Gérard de Nerval: The Poet as Social Visionary.

"Rebellious Hearts is a lively, engaging, and cross-disciplinary survey of British women's writings on the French Revolution. Its essays are conspicuously open-minded and historically informed, and commendably tackle little-known figures, as well as the likes of Hannah More and Frances Burney." — Linda Colley, author of Britons: Forging the Nation 1707–1837"The authors of these essays have done a fine job of working with important primary sources and the most recent secondary ones. Moreover, they have done so in a remarkably savvy way, cognizant at every step of the real, actual nature of daily life in Romantic England and of the manner in which women writers used their publications in a variety of ways to engage, comment upon, shape, and otherwise manipulate public opinion." — Stephen C. Behrendt, author of Royal Mourning and Regency Culture: Elegies and Memorials of Princess Charlotte"Rebellious Hearts derives much of its impact from its presentation of a substantial number of women writers whose published works reflect both common concerns and authorial strategies (such as a strong epistolary trend in diverse genres) and a striking range of political opinion. I was persuaded that in ignoring this rich network of conversations, we have had a seriously diminished understanding of England's debates on the French Revolution. " — Sarah M. Zimmerman, author of Romanticism, Lyricism, and History

• List of IllustrationsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction British Women Writers and the French Revolution, 1789–1815Adriana Craciun and Kari E. LokkeRevolution and Nationalism Blurring the Borders of Nation and Gender: Mary Wollstonecraft's Character (R)evolutionJan WellingtonChallenging Englishness: Frances Burney's The WandererMaria Jerinic"The Mild Dominion of the Moon": Charlotte Smith and the Politics of TranscendenceKari E. LokkeRevolution and Religion The Anxiety of (Feminine) Influence: Hannah More and Counter-RevolutionAngela KeaneThe French, the "Long-wished-for Revolution," and the Just War in Joanna SouthcottKevin BinfieldNapoleon, Nationalism, and the Politics of Religion in Mariana Starke's Letters from ItalyJeanne MoskalRevolutionary Subjects The New Cordays: Helen Craik and British Representations of Charlotte Corday, 1793–1800Adriana CraciunMary Hays's "Female Philosopher": Constructing Revolutionary SubjectsMiriam L. WallaceIndirect Dissent: "Landscaping" Moral Agency in Amelia Alderson Opie's Poems of the 1790sAnn Frank WakeRevolutionary Representation Elizabeth Inchbald, Joanna Baillie, and Revolutionary Representation in the "Romantic" PeriodTerence Allan HoagwoodBenevolent Historian: Helen Maria Williams and Her British ReadersDeborah KennedyThe Politics of Truth and Deception: Charlotte Smith and the French RevolutionJudith Davis MillerAfterwordMadelyn GutwirthContributorsIndex