She had recourse to her pen’: Radical Voices in Elizabeth Hamilton’s Memoirs of Modern Philosophers

This article explores Elizabeth Hamilton’s response to the abuse of Jacobin radicalism in early nineteenth-century Britain. It situates Hamilton’s fictional representations of revolutionary principles and her outspoken caricatures of contemporary radicals in her three-volume Memoirs of Modern Philosophers (1800) within the trajectory of the gradual decline of radical voices from the mid-1790s onwards. This article demonstrates how new philosophical principles are presented in the novel as impractical and subversive in nature, as a way for Hamilton to show readers that these principles are dangerous and likely to be falsely adopted to destroy all fair domestic and public values. Ultimately, it argues for the discursive space Hamilton created to challenge and destabilise Jacobin radicalism, and also aims to shed light on the gendered conventions of public participation in the period.

Loại tài liệu:

Article - Bài báo

Tác giả:

Yi-Cheng, Weng

Đề mục:

Autobiographies

Nhà xuất bản:

Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research, ENCAP

Ngày xuất bản:

June 2017

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Định dạng:

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Nguồn gốc:

Romantic Textualities; Cardiff, Issue 22, June 2017, Pages 63-51

Liên kết:

ISSN 1748-0116

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She had recourse to her pen’: Radical Voices in Elizabeth Hamilton’s Memoirs of Modern Philosophers

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