Title: HARRIET GUEST. Unbounded Attachment: Sentiment and Politics in the Age of the French Revolution
Abstract:In Unbounded Attachment, Harriet Guest continues her investigation, begun with her earlier book, Small Change (2000), of the place of women in eighteenth-century society and their imagining of their r...In Unbounded Attachment, Harriet Guest continues her investigation, begun with her earlier book, Small Change (2000), of the place of women in eighteenth-century society and their imagining of their role, through the discourse of sensibility, as citizens of the British nation. Whereas in the earlier work Guest was concerned with the ‘small … changes’ that were articulated through the ‘language of desire or aspiration’ often in relation to the past, her current book documents the ways in which ‘the language of sensibility provides a means of imagining the place of women in relation to the broader political identity of the nation’ in the present (p. 4). In this lucidly written and meticulously researched study, she examines the contributions of women writers to the ‘Revolution debate’ in the 1790s, all the while cognizant of the pressures that informed their participation in this political and cultural endeavour during the French Revolution itself and then in its aftermath.Read More
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-06-16
Language: en
Type: article
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