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Desmond, Paperback / softback Book

Desmond Paperback / softback

Edited by Antje Blank, Janet Todd

Part of the Broadview Editions series

Paperback / softback

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Desmond is a political novel about the French Revolution.

It is Charlotte Smith’s only epistolary work, and it is her most politically radical piece.

Written in response to Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, Smith’s Desmond fuses political discussion with romance, social satire and a suspenseful plot revolving around a liberal hero desperately in love with a woman who is married to a drunken anti-revolutionary.

Whereas Burke represented the French Revolution as a sentimental drama, Smith draws out the parallel between political and domestic tyranny to show how the disenfranchisement of British women under eighteenth-century common law resembled the political tyranny of the French absolutist monarchy.

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