Anti-Jacobin Novels, Part II - Tapa dura

'The editor of each volume has done a thorough and illuminating job. Each novel comes complete with a chronology of the author, a bibliography, an excellent introduction, sound and expansive annotation, and reprints of contemporary reviews. The five volumes provide fascinating insights into popular re-workings and extensions of Burkean theory, yet they are perhaps most revealing for the ways in which they resist the conservative ideology they seem bent on meting out. As these novels intimate, the ideology of conservatism was to show itself remarkably adept both at deploring and appropriating radical energies.'- Robert Morrison, The Wordsworth Circle

A selection of Anti-Jacobin novels reprinted in full with annotations. The set includes works by male and female writers holding a range of political positions within the Anti-Jacobin camp, and represents the French Revolution, American Revolution, Irish Rebellion and political unrest in Scotland.