John Thelwall
Subtitle: radical romantic and acquitted felon
By: edited by Steve Poole
Series: The Enlightenment world -- no. 11; Enlightenment world -- no. 11.
Publisher: Pickering & Chatto
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9781851966981; 9781851969739; 9781851966985
Subjects: Intellectual life; Criticism and interpretation; Romanticism; Political and social views; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; LITERARY CRITICISM; John Thelwall; European
Description: Fourteen essays on the Romantic period radical and polymath, John Thelwall.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-219) and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: List of Contributors; Preface; Introduction; 1. The Lives of Joh Thelwall; 2. Usual and Unusual Suspects; 3. Thelwall in His Own Defence; 4. Labour, Contingency, utility; 5. 'A Loud, A Fervid, and Resolute Remonstrance with Our Rulers'; 6. Joh Thelwall's Radical Version of Democracy; 7. Articulations on Community in The Peripatetic; 8. Domestic Invasions; 9. The Dungeon and the Cell; 10. Thelwall's Two Plays Against Empire, Incle and Yarico (1787) and The Incas (1792); 11. A 'Double-Visag'd Fate'; 12. The Conceptual Underpinnings of John Thelwall's Elocutionary Practices.