Recent critics April London
and Shareen Robinson
have concentrated on the novel's political message; Robinson also notes that the story shifts from the domestic to the public sphere.
London, April. “Clock Time and Utopia’s Time in Novels of the 1790s”. Studies in English Literature, Vol.
40
, No. 3, pp. 539-60.
Robinson, Shareen. “Heroines in a Revolutionary World, 1790-1800”. British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS) Conference, Oxford.
Literary responses
Helen Craik
Apparently the only journal to notice Adelaide de Narbonne was the Anti-Jacobin in January 1800: it wished that Craik had not left her own political stance inexplicit.
Craciun, Adriana, and Kari E. Lokke, editors. “The New Cordays: Helen Craik and British Representations of Charlotte Corday, 1793-1800”. Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution, State University of New York Press, pp. 193-32.
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Robinson, Shareen. “Heroines in a Revolutionary World, 1790-1800”. British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS) Conference, Oxford.
Robinson, Shareen. Revolutionary Novels. University of New South Wales, 2000.