Desmond
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Desmondis 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 Revolutionin 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 the French absolutist monarchy.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1551112744
ISBN13:9781551112749
Release Date:August 2001
Publisher:Broadview Press Inc
Length:488 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
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