Desmond Paperback - 2001 - 1st Edition
by Smith, Charlotte
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- Title Desmond
- Author Smith, Charlotte
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 488
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Broadview Press, Peterborough, Ontario
- Date 2001
- Bookseller's Inventory # 011742
- ISBN 9781551112749 / 1551112744
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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From the rear cover
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.