The Plagiarism Allegation in English Literature from Butler to Sterne

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"Dramatically expanding the boundaries of the British "Jacobin" novel, Conversion and Reform in the British Novel in the 1790s analyzes the works of a wide range of British reformists writing in the 1790s, including William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, and Maria Edgeworth, who reshaped the conventions of contemporary fiction to position the novel as a progressive political tool. Rather than aiming to launch a bloody revolution, these authors worked to initiate social and political reform in such as women's right, abolition, the Jewish question, and the leveling of the class system in Britain by converting the general public, one reader at a time."--Jacket.

subjects: Plagiarism,  Literature and society,  English drama,  Intellectual life,  English literature,  Imitation in literature,  History and criticism,  Originality in literature,  History,  English literature, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700,  English drama, history and criticism, 18th century,  Great britain, intellectual life,  LITERARY CRITICISM,  European,  English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,  Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800,  Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers,  Literature