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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