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Article: The Anti-Jacobin Novel: British Conservatism and the French Revolution. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
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- March 22, 2003
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M. O. Grenby. The Anti-Jacobin Novel: British Conservatism and the French Revolution. (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2001. Pp. xiii, 271. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-80351-9.
The French Revolution was waged not just in France and not just in the streets and battlefields. The British press was a major front, where the war raged in the papers, in pamphlets, and in a growth industry of popular fiction. The first sally was "Jacobin fiction," a propagandizing genre that worked revolutionary principles into appealing tales of abuse and hope. Yet, as M. O. Grenby argues in his capably researched, cogently arranged, well written, and ...