Enlightenment and Revolution: The Philosophical Novels of Dr John Moore

Dr John Moore (1729-1802) was a man of the Enlightenment who wrote novels during the Revolutionary decade. His novels, like those of his English contemporary Robert Bage and the younger "English Jacobin" novelists, participate in the Enlightenment as a set of broadbased intellectual, cultural, and scientific movements, made up mostly of men (and a few women) from the upper classes and professions. More particularly, these novels participate in the Enlightenment as a movement of social criticism directed against what were seen as irrational and unprogressive court government and its dupes, the merely emulative middle classes on one hand and the equally irrational and unprogressive common people on the other.1 In some ways, the Revolution seemed to observers at the time as a culmination of this kind of Enlightenment

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