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Seditious allegories : John Thelwall & Jacobin writing
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Seditious allegories : John Thelwall & Jacobin writing

Author: Michael Henry Scrivener
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2001.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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,  Read more...
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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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