This book is a major reassessment of the French Revolution¿s impact on the English novel of the Romantic period. Focusing particularly ¿ but by no means exclusively ¿ on women writers of the time, it explores the enthusiasm, wariness, or hostility with which the Revolution was interpreted and represented for then-contemporary readers. A team of international scholars study how English Romantic novelists sought to guide the British response to an event that seemed likely to turn the world upside down.