M O Grenby The Anti-Jacobin Novel: British Conservatism and the French Revolution.

M O Grenby The Anti-Jacobin Novel: British Conservatism and the French Revolution. (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism.) modern York: Cambridge University Pres 2001 Pp xiii, 271 $5995 ISBN 0-521-80351-9

The French Revolution was waged not just in France and not just in the ways and battlefields. The British pres was a major effrontery where the war raged in the papers, in pamphlets, and in a product industry of popular fiction. The first sally was "Jacobin fiction," a propagandizing genre that worked revolutionary principles into appealing tales of abuse and

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