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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... Meeting in the Cells of Newgate — a slight Idea of a Revolution Chap . 7. Humanity of a Mob — the Vagabond is unfortunately prevented attaining a Martyrdom — Gaming IIO demonstrated to be the only liberal Science . .116 Chap . 8. Mr ...
... Meeting at Chalk Farm . [ Editor's note : A reference to a general meeting of the London Corresponding Society , held at Chalk Farm , near Hampstead , London , on Monday , 14 April 1794. The meeting , which attracted upwards of 2,000 ...
... meeting was called the day before the meeting of Parlia- ment : whereas the meeting took place on Monday , and it was not till Thursday that the tumult happened . Now , Citizens , what idea must we form of the inflammatory proceedings ...
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Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Note on the Text | 44 |
The Vagabond concludes his StoryThe effects | 147 |
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