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| Named Person: | John Thelwall; John Thelwall |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael Henry Scrivener |
| ISBN: | 0271021098 9780271021096 |
| OCLC Number: | 44979804 |
| Description: | xii, 305 ; 24 p. cm. |
| Contents: | Jacobinism -- Defining Jacobinism -- Thelwall's Replies to Burke -- The Voice of the People -- Thelwall's Popular Poetry and LCS Culture -- Excursus: Radical Underground: Spence and Wedderburn -- Intemperance, Oratory, and Voicelessness -- Jacobin Allegory -- Peripatetic Imagination -- Against Empire -- Autobiographies. |
| Responsibility: | Michael Scrivener. |
Abstract:
"The multifaceted career of John Thelwall (1764-1834) - poet, novelist, playwright, journalist, politician, scientist - is the lens through which we are offered here a new look at the phenomenon of British Jacobinism, long distorted by the critical view of it as intellectually weak bequeathed to us by Coleridge and Wordsworth, once Jacobins themselves. This book, the first on Thelwall in almost one hundred years, combines literary analysis and historical description to show how this innovative political activist remained true to his radicalism while adapting his methods in the face of the anti-Jacobin reaction that Paine's The Rights of Man helped set off."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Thelwall, John, -- 1764-1834 -- Political and social views.
- Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
- Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
- France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Influence.
- English literature -- French influences.
- Jacobins -- Great Britain -- History.
- Social problems in literature.
- Sedition -- Great Britain.
- Radicalism in literature.
- Allegory.
- Jakobijnen.
- Politieke activiteit.
- Letterkunde.
- Engels.
- Thelwall, John
- Radikalismus
