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    • Angela Keane, Angela Keane is Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature at the University of Sheffield.
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  • Publisher:
    Liverpool University Press
    Publication date:
    16 January 2020
    01 January 2013
    ISBN:
    9781786945921
    9780746310960
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    • Subjects:
    Literature, Literary Texts
    Series:
    Writers and their Work
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In the 1790s, when Charlotte Smith and Helen Maria Williams were at the peak of their critical reputations, they were known to each other and often cited together approvingly. It was Smith who provided the young William Wordsworth with a letter of introduction to Williams when he visited France in 1791 (though she had left by the time he got there). By the end of the decade Smith and Williams were being cited together more pejoratively, as two of a number of women who came to stand for the amoral, sexually suspect and politically naïve English 'Jacobins,' who were vilified in the conservative press. Neither were in fact 'Jacobins,' but they were revolutionary. This book looks at how Smith and Williams earned such reputations and at the politics and poetics of the works that reveal Smith to be a self-constructed Romantic and Williams as a mistress of intimate disguise.

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