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Unusual suspects : Pitt's reign of alarm and the lost generation of the 1790s /
'Unusual Suspects' tells the lost stories of the right people in the right place at the wrong time: liberal intellectuals in 'free-born' Britain during a decade when enthusiasm for political reform was enough to see their careers hindered irrevocably.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preamble: 'Who are these people?'
- I. The Red Decade. Usual and Unusual in 1790s Britain ; Before and After Lives: John Thelwall and William Godwin.
- II. The Forces of Public Opinion. Joseph Priestley, 'Dr. Phlogiston' ; James Montgomery, Radical Moravian.
- III. Keeping the University and Church Safe from Reform. William Frend, 'Frend of Jesus, friend of the Devil' ; Thomas Beddoes, Sr., No Laughing Matter.
- IV. Other Voices, Other Places. The Suspect Gender: Helen Maria Williams, Our Paris Correspondent ; Suspect Nations: William Drennan, 'Let Irishmen remain sulky, grave and watchful' ; Generic Suspicions: Robert Bage, The Novelist Who Was Not.
- V. End-Games. Gilbert Wakefield, The End of Controversy ; James Mackintosh, The Great Apostate: Judas, Brutus, or Thomas?.
- VI. The Romantic Poets and the Police. Spy Nozy in Somerset: 'A Gang of Disaffected Englishmen' ; Coleridge and Thelwall: 'Whispering Tongues Can Poison Truth' ; Wordsworth, The Prelude, and Posterity ; Robert Southey, More Radical Than Thou ; Charles Lamb, Radical in a lamb's cloak ; Robert Burns, 'A Man for a' That' ; Blake's America: The Prophecy that Failed ; Coda: 'What does it signify?'.