The French Revolution and the British Novel in the Romantic Period

Editors A.D. Cousins, Dani Napton, and Stephanie Russo are all affiliated with Macquarie U., Australia. They provide an introductory chapger before presentation of nine scholarly essays (including their own). Contributions address: children's literature and the French revolution; Charlotte Smith's The Banished Man; Wollstonecraft's feminist adaptation of the revolutionary novel; the novels of Frances Burney; Mary Robinson and androgyny; Jane Austen; and Mary Shelley's The Last Man, among other topics. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

A. D. Cousins is Professor of English at Macquarie University, Australia. A member of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, he has published widely on early modern British literature and culture; his most recent publication is The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet (with Peter Howarth).
Dani Napton is an honorary associate at Macquarie University. Her research is focused on English non-dramatic literature and culture from 1750 to 1900, with special attention to the history of ideas, rhetorical theory and practice, genre, landscape/place narrative and political theory, and historiography and representations of revolution and counterrevolution.
Stephanie Russo is a lecturer at Macquarie University. Her research is focused on the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel, particularly on gender, politics, the history of ideas, and representations of revolution and counter-revolution.