M O Grenby
Biographic Data
| ID | 907333 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M O Grenby |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | O Grenby |
| SIGNATURE | GRENBY M O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1097-4071 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Obituary
Elections in 18th‐Century England
Towards a History of Children and Heritage
Young people are now at the centre of what we call "heritage". Children are a familiar sight at heritage sites, where specific provision is made for their learning and entertainment. Heritage education is also now well established, with families, schools, heritage sites and agencies working to ensure that children are encouraged and supported to engage with the material remains of the past. However, this is a surprisingly recent development. It w…
Delightful Instruction? Assessing Children’s Use of Educational Books in the Long Eighteenth Century
Most cultural historians agree that the eighteenth century witnessed the birth in Britain of a separate literature especially for children. Not only were the first recognizably modern children’s titles published, but, by the end of the century, children’s literature had become securely established as a profitable and sustainable branch of print culture. Clearly centrally important in this were the productions of mid-century pioneers such as John …
Gothic and the Child Reader, 1764–1850
The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
The French Revolution ignited the biggest debate on politics and society in Britain since the Civil War 150 years earlier. The public controversy lasted from the initial, positive reaction to French events in 1789 to the outlawing of the radical societies in 1799. This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. It contains thirt…
Anti-Jacobin Novel
Writing Revolution
The French Revolution had a profound effect on almost all aspects of British culture. French events and ideas were avidly discussed and disputed in Britain. Long‐standing British political and cultural debates were given new life; new socio‐political ideologies rapidly emerged. The sense of political, religious and cultural crisis that developed in the 1790s was only slowly to dissipate. Generations afterwards, many British thinkers and writers w…
Adults Only? Children and Children's Books in British Circulating Libraries, 1748-1848
The question of whether circulating libraries in their late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century heyday catered for children has not received any sustained investigation. This is regrettable because the question has a bearing on our understanding of both circulating libraries and children's literature. Were circulating libraries designed for the use of the whole family, or constructed as places of purely adult resort, reserved for putatively …
The Anti-Jacobin Novel
The French Revolution sparked an ideological debate which also brought Britain to the brink of revolution in the 1790s. Just as radicals wrote 'Jacobin' fiction, so the fear of rebellion prompted conservatives to respond with novels of their own; indeed, these soon outnumbered the Jacobin novels. This was the first survey of the full range of conservative novels produced in Britain during the 1790s and early 1800s. M. O. Grenby examines the strat…
The Anti‐Jacobin Novel
Despite much recent interest in the culture of conservatism and loyalism in late eighteenth‐century Britain, little attention has been paid to the highly conservative fiction of the decade or so either side of 1800. After considering why this has been the case, this article reveals that there were many more of these ‘anti‐Jacobin’ novels than has previously been thought. It then surveys the major themes which run through the novels, binding them …
Adults Only? Children and Children's Books in British Circulating Libraries, 1748-1848
The question of whether circulating libraries in their late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century heyday catered for children has not received any sustained investigation. This is regrettable because the question has a bearing on our understanding of both circulating libraries and children's literature. Were circulating libraries designed for the use of the whole family, or constructed as places of purely adult resort, reserved for putatively …
The Anti‐Jacobin Novel
Despite much recent interest in the culture of conservatism and loyalism in late eighteenth‐century Britain, little attention has been paid to the highly conservative fiction of the decade or so either side of 1800. After considering why this has been the case, this article reveals that there were many more of these ‘anti‐Jacobin’ novels than has previously been thought. It then surveys the major themes which run through the novels, binding them …
The Anti‐Jacobin Novel
Despite much recent interest in the culture of conservatism and loyalism in late eighteenth‐century Britain, little attention has been paid to the highly conservative fiction of the decade or so either side of 1800. After considering why this has been the case, this article reveals that there were many more of these ‘anti‐Jacobin’ novels than has previously been thought. It then surveys the major themes which run through the novels, binding them …
The Anti-Jacobin Novel
The French Revolution sparked an ideological debate which also brought Britain to the brink of revolution in the 1790s. Just as radicals wrote 'Jacobin' fiction, so the fear of rebellion prompted conservatives to respond with novels of their own; indeed, these soon outnumbered the Jacobin novels. This was the first survey of the full range of conservative novels produced in Britain during the 1790s and early 1800s. M. O. Grenby examines the strat…
Adults Only? Children and Children's Books in British Circulating Libraries, 1748-1848
The question of whether circulating libraries in their late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century heyday catered for children has not received any sustained investigation. This is regrettable because the question has a bearing on our understanding of both circulating libraries and children's literature. Were circulating libraries designed for the use of the whole family, or constructed as places of purely adult resort, reserved for putatively …
Writing Revolution
The French Revolution had a profound effect on almost all aspects of British culture. French events and ideas were avidly discussed and disputed in Britain. Long‐standing British political and cultural debates were given new life; new socio‐political ideologies rapidly emerged. The sense of political, religious and cultural crisis that developed in the 1790s was only slowly to dissipate. Generations afterwards, many British thinkers and writers w…
Anti-Jacobin Novel
The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
The French Revolution ignited the biggest debate on politics and society in Britain since the Civil War 150 years earlier. The public controversy lasted from the initial, positive reaction to French events in 1789 to the outlawing of the radical societies in 1799. This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. It contains thirt…
Gothic and the Child Reader, 1764–1850
Delightful Instruction? Assessing Children’s Use of Educational Books in the Long Eighteenth Century
Most cultural historians agree that the eighteenth century witnessed the birth in Britain of a separate literature especially for children. Not only were the first recognizably modern children’s titles published, but, by the end of the century, children’s literature had become securely established as a profitable and sustainable branch of print culture. Clearly centrally important in this were the productions of mid-century pioneers such as John …
Elections in 18th‐Century England
Towards a History of Children and Heritage
Young people are now at the centre of what we call "heritage". Children are a familiar sight at heritage sites, where specific provision is made for their learning and entertainment. Heritage education is also now well established, with families, schools, heritage sites and agencies working to ensure that children are encouraged and supported to engage with the material remains of the past. However, this is a surprisingly recent development. It w…
Obituary
History (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · History (4 works) · French revolution (3 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works)