Unusual suspects : Pitt's reign of alarm and the lost generation of the 1790s / Kenneth R. Johnston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnston, Kenneth R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

Authors, English--18th century.

Authors, English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (403 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'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.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Plates; Preamble: 'Who are these people?'; PART I. THE RED DECADE; 1. Usual and Unusual in 1790s Britain; 2. Before and After Lives: John Thelwall and William Godwin; PART II. THE FORCES OF PUBLIC OPINION; 3. 'Dr Phlogiston': Joseph Priestley (1733-1804); 4. The Radical Moravian: James Montgomery (1771-1854); PART III. KEEPING THE UNIVERSITY AND CHURCH SAFE FROM REFORM; 5. 'Frend of Jesus, friend of the Devil': William Frend (1757-1841); 6. No Laughing Matter: Thomas Beddoes, Sr. (1760-1808); PART IV. OTHER VOICES, OTHER PLACES

7. The Suspect Gender. Our Paris Correspondent: Helen Maria Williams (1761-1827)8. Suspect Nations. 'Let Irishmen remain sulky, grave, prudent and watchful': William Drennan (1754-1820); 9. Generic Suspicions. The Novelist Who Was Not: Robert Bage (1728-1801); PART V. END-GAMES; 10. The End of Controversy: Gilbert Wakefield (1756-1801); 11. The Great Apostate: Judas, Brutus, or Thomas? James Mackintosh (1765-1832); PART VI. THE ROMANTIC POETS, THE POLICE, AND THE STATE OF ALARM; 12. 'A gang of disaffected Englishmen': Spy Nozy and the Somerset Gang

13. 'Whispering tongues can poison truth': Coleridge and Thelwall, 1796-179814. Wordsworth, The Prelude, and Posterity; 15. More Radical than Thou: Robert Southey (1774-1843); 16. Radical in a Lamb's Cloak: Charles Lamb (1775-1834); 17. 'A Man for a' That': Robert Burns (1759-1796); 18. Blake's America , the Prophecy that Failed: William Blake (1757-1827); Coda: 'What does it signify?'; Appendix 1 Trials for Sedition and Treason, 1792-1798; Appendix 2 Wakefield's Juvenal (1800); Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Aug 2, 2013).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-163198-1

0-19-163197-3

0-19-965780-7

OCLC:

851087133