This book is a major reassessment of the French Revolution's impact on the English novel of the
Romantic period. Focusing particularly - but by no means exclusively - on women writers of the
time it explores the enthusiasm wariness or hostility with which the Revolution was
interpreted and represented for then-contemporary readers. A team of international scholars
study how English Romantic novelists sought to guide the British response to an event that
seemed likely to turn the world upside down.
