Publication

2001 - Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pa, Pennsylvania

Language

English

Word Count

76,250 words, Guess

Page Count

305 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100271021098
  • ISBN-139780271021096
  • Goodreads2822759
  • Library of Congress Control Number00064979
  • OCLC Control Number44979804
and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780271021096
  • Open LibraryOL6795254M

Classifications

  • DDC828/.609
  • LCCPR3729.T4 Z88 2001
  • LCCPR3729.T4Z88 2001

Description

"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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