Modes of Discipline: Women, Conservatism and the Novel after the French Revolution.(Book Review)

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-JUL-05

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Modes of Discipline: Women, Conservatism and the Novel after the French Revolution. By LISA WOOD. (Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture) Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2003. 189 pp. 32 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8387-5527-5.

In Modes of Discipline Lisa Wood argues persuasively for a scholarly focus on the novels of so-called English conservative women writers of the decades following 1789, chiefly Mary Brunton, Laetitia Maria Hawkins, Elizabeth Hamilton, Hannah More, and Jane West. Although, as Wood points out, critics tend to privilege the 'radical' English writers of the 1790s such as Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Hays, those writers she terms 'loyal conformists' greatly 'outnumbered...

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