Politics and Genre in the Works of Elizabeth Hamilton, 1756û1816

In the first book-length study of Elizabeth Hamilton, Claire Grogan addresses a significant gap in scholarship and complicates critical understanding of the Romantic woman writer. Arguing that politically centrist writers have been overlooked, Grogan suggests that situating Hamilton in terms of the Jacobin/anti-Jacobin framework obscures her radical innovations in the deployment of genre. Hamilton's example shows that new strategies for uncovering the means by which women writers participated in the revolutionary debate.