Desmond

Name: Desmond
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ISBN: 9781551112749

ISBN-10: 1551112744

ISBN-13: 9781551112749

Edition: 2001

Authors: Charlotte Smith, Antje Blank, Janet Todd

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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…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Broadview Press
Publication date: 8/30/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 488
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Antje Blank is Research Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Aberdeen.



Acknowledgements


Introduction


Charlotte Smith: A Brief Chronology


Works by Charlotte Smith


Further Reading


A Note on the Text


Desmond


Preface


Volume I


Volume II


Volume III


Notes



Extract from Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France



Extract from Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men



Extract from Helen Maria Williams, Letters from France



Charlotte Smith, The Emigrants



Charlotte Smith, Letters to Joseph Cooper Walker and Joel Barlow