Seditious Allegories: John Thelwall and Jacobin Writing
()
About this ebook
The multifaceted career of John Thelwall (1764-1834)—poet, novelist, playwright, journalist, politician, scientist—is the lens through which we are offered here a new look at the phenomenon of British Jacobinism, long distorted by the critical view of it as intellectually weak bequeathed to us by Coleridge and Wordsworth, once Jacobins themselves. This book, the first on Thelwall in almost one hundred years, combines literary analysis and historical description to show how this innovative political activist remained true to his radicalism while adapting his methods in the face of the anti-Jacobin reaction that Paine's The Rights of Man helped set off.
The three parts of the book set Thelwall's achievements and challenges in the political and literary context of his times. Part One, "Jacobin(s) Writing," focuses on the most essential aspects, ideologically and formally, of the insurgent writing of the 1790s to which Thelwall contributed. Part Two, "The Voice of the People," treats both Thelwall's radical oratory and journalism, as well as his writings and activities as a natural scientist and rhetorician, a professor and technician of "elocution." Part Three, "Jacobin Allegory," expounds on Thelwall's characteristic strategy of indirect expression through synecdoche and allegory, which he used in his later career after repression forced him out of politics.
Through Thelwall's life Michael Scrivener succeeds in revealing how British Jacobinism reshaped the public sphere, initiating numerous literary experiments with oratory, pamphlets, periodicals, popularizations, and songs in the spaces opened up by political associations, lectures, meetings, and trials. Jacobinism thus altered the very institutions of reading and writing by expanding literacy, restructuring the popular arena for reading, and generating a body of diverse texts that were "seditious allegories."
Related to Seditious Allegories
Related ebooks
Conscience and Community: Revisiting Toleration and Religious Dissent in Early Modern England and America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAn Empire Nowhere: England, America, and Literature from Utopia to The Tempest Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHot Protestants: A History of Puritanism in England and America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5National Reckonings: The Last Judgment and Literature in Milton’s England Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAn Essay on Man Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Religious Sonnets of Dylan Thomas: A Study in Imagery and Meaning Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWitness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsInscribing the Time: Shakespeare and the End of Elizabethan England Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Levellers: Radical political thought in the English Revolution Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Speaking Aristocracy: Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsImpostures in early modern England: Representations and perceptions of fraudulent identities Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDurable Inequality Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Painters of the Ashcan School: The Immortal Eight Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Anecdotes of Enlightenment: Human Nature from Locke to Wordsworth Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLiterary and visual Ralegh Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAesthetics of contingency: Writing, politics, and culture in England, 1639–89 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWestminster 1640–60: A royal city in a time of revolution Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Unstoppable Irish: Songs and Integration of the New York Irish, 1783–1883 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHarmony from Discords: A Life of Sir John Denham Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThis England: Essays on the English nation and Commonwealth in the sixteenth century Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsModernism from the Margins: The 1930's Poetry of Louis MacNeice and Dylan Thomas Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Unexamined Orwell Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Thomas Chandler Haliburton Symposium Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEveryday Life and Politics in Nineteenth Century Mexico: Men, Women, and War Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Critical-Creative Writing: Two Sides of the Same Coin: A Foundation Reader Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOrigins of Democratic Culture: Printing, Petitions, and the Public Sphere in Early-Modern England Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The Cooke sisters: Education, piety and politics in early modern England Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Vision: The Revised 1937 Edition: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume XIV Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Politics For You
Disloyal: A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The U.S. Constitution with The Declaration of Independence and The Articles of Confederation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Daily Stoic: A Daily Journal On Meditation, Stoicism, Wisdom and Philosophy to Improve Your Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Anarchist Cookbook Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Prince Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The January 6th Report Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Great Awakening: Defeating the Globalists and Launching the Next Great Renaissance Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Great Reset: And the War for the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fear: Trump in the White House Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Capitalism and Freedom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Get Trump: The Threat to Civil Liberties, Due Process, and Our Constitutional Rule of Law Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Republic by Plato Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on the U.S.-Israeli War on the Palestinians Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Reviews for Seditious Allegories
0 ratings0 reviews