Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-p2v8j Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-06-11T06:10:08.398Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Chapter 7 - Complicities in the Novel

from Part III - War and Peace in an Age of Revolutions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2024

Andrew Lincoln
Affiliation:
Queen Mary University of London
Get access

Summary

This considers the impact of systemic critiques of war, developed in the period of the American and French Revolutions, upon the work of two novelists. Samuel Jackson Pratts Emma Corbett, written during – and in opposition to – the American War of Independence, describes a young Engish heroines growing awareness of the role of property relations in supporting martial ideals and causing wars, and her conversion to a form of pacifism. Charlotte Smiths The Old Manor House, written in the early years of the French Revolution, describes a British soldier fighting in the American War of Independence, who comes to question the purpose and causes of the war, including the chivalric values of the ruling class. Both novels show how war exposes the selfish foundations of ordinary social life. While Jackson Pratts heroine escapes compromise through death, Smiths hero inherits the estate of the woman whose aristocratic values he despises.

Type
Chapter
Information
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

  • Complicities in the Novel
  • Andrew Lincoln, Queen Mary University of London
  • Book: Imagining War and Peace in Eighteenth-Century Britain, 1690–1820
  • Online publication: 10 January 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009366519.012
Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

  • Complicities in the Novel
  • Andrew Lincoln, Queen Mary University of London
  • Book: Imagining War and Peace in Eighteenth-Century Britain, 1690–1820
  • Online publication: 10 January 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009366519.012
Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

  • Complicities in the Novel
  • Andrew Lincoln, Queen Mary University of London
  • Book: Imagining War and Peace in Eighteenth-Century Britain, 1690–1820
  • Online publication: 10 January 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009366519.012
Available formats
×