The VagabondBroadview Press, 2004 M09 14 - 389 páginas First published in 1799, George Walker’s The Vagabond was an immediate popular success. Offering a vitriolic critique of post-Bastille Jacobinism and sansculotte-style mob rule, its true-to-life satirical portraits of many of the radical men and women who fought in the forefront of the "British Revolution" are nonetheless full of playful banter and farce. With swipes at Hume, Rousseau, Godwin, Wollstonecraft, and Paine; the French Revolution; and the ideas of the noble savage, natural virtue, liberty, equality, and romantic primitivism, The Vagabond offers a unique cross-section of 1790s radicalism. This Broadview edition contains a critical introduction and a wide selection of primary source materials that situate the novel in the context of the revolutionary debate of the 1790s. Appendices include contemporary reviews of the novel and excerpts from the writings of a variety of radicals and reactionaries engaged in the debate, such as Hume, Rousseau, Paine, Thelwall, Wollstonecraft, Godwin, Burke, Playfair, Malthus, and Cobbett, among many others. |
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... happy times when property was unregarded , when no tyrant could plant his foot upon an acre of ground , and repulse his fellow from the sod ! Property ! property ! thou art the bane of earthly good , an ulcer in society , and a cancer ...
... Happy , happy shores , " exclaimed he , " How few comparative evils do you know ? Unvisited by savage war - insulated from a treacherous and rapa- cious foe — untainted by pestilence , and at a distance from the climes , where ...
... happy to be told you did , the fire and energy of my Oration , it was nothing , I assure you , to that which would have blazed upon the Audience , had I felt my Cause to be popular , or could I even have caught a single glance of ...
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Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Note on the Text | 44 |
The Vagabond concludes his StoryThe effects | 147 |
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