Poems Chiefly Written in Retirement
Author: John Thelwall
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Published: 1801
Total Pages: 272
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Poems Chiefly Written in Retirement 1801
Author: John Thelwall
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 282
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncle and Yarico
Author: John Thelwall
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780838641019
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents two unpublished plays by John Thelwall (1764-1834), a friend of Coleridge, a radical lecturer for the London Corresponding Society acquitted of treason in 1794, and a prolific man of letters who produced novels, poetry, journalism, literary criticism, scientific and political essays, autobiography, and sociological analysis, in addition to drama. Both plays, libretti for the London theater, are especially relevant today as they use popular literary forms to discuss critically issues of race, empire, revolution, and sexuality. Incle and Yarico (1792) comically treats the important eighteenth-century intertextual fable of the English merchant, Inkle, who betrays the Indian maid, Yarico, an innocent and noble savage. The play is forthrightly abolitionist in its depiction of slavery. The Incas (1792) allegorizes the French Revolution and the English suppression of political dissent in depicting a confrontation between the Europeans and the New World. Drawing upon and extending the radical Enlightenment, Thelwall undermines the justifications for European empire. Frank Felsenstein is Reed D. University. Michael Scrivener is a Professor of English at Wayne State University.
Organising Poetry
Author: David Fairer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2009-06-11
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 0199296162
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWriting their early poetry during the 1790s, a decade of European revolution, Coleridge, Wordsworth and their friends have always been thought of as 'the First-Generation Romantics'. This book challenges that concept by viewing them from an entirely new perspective as poets who were continuing an eighteenth-century 'organic' tradition.
The Daughter of Adoption
Author: John Thelwall
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2013-03-18
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 1554810639
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Thelwall’s The Daughter of Adoption: A Tale of Modern Times is a witty and wide-ranging work in which the picaresque and sentimental novel of the eighteenth century confronts the revolutionary ideas and forms of the Romantic period. Thelwall puts his two main characters, the conflicted English gentleman Henry Montfort and the Creole Seraphina Parkinson, through their paces in a slave rebellion in Haiti, where they barely escape with their lives, and in London society, where Henry almost loses his soul. Combining political analysis with melodrama and flat-out farce, Daughter expands the scope of the abolitionist novel, pushing the argument beyond the slave trade to challenge empire and racial superiority. Historical materials on Thelwall’s life, the abolitionist movement, and eighteenth-century educational theories provide a detailed context for the novel.
John Thelwall: Radical Romantic and Acquitted Felon
Author: Steve Poole
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1317314077
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Thelwall was a Romantic and Enlightenment polymath. In 1794 he was tried and acquitted of high treason, earning himself the disdainful soubriquet 'acquitted felon' from Secretary of State for War, William Windham. Later, Thelwall's interests turned to poetry and plays, and was a collaborator and confidant of Wordsworth and Coleridge.
Charles Lamb, Coleridge and Wordsworth
Author: Felicity James
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008-09-02
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 0230583261
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book makes the case for a re-placing of Lamb as reader, writer and friend in the midst of the lively political and literary scene of the 1790s. Reading his little-known early works alongside others by the likes of Coleridge and Wordsworth, it allows a revealing insight into the creative dynamics of early Romanticism.
Wordsworth’s Bardic Vocation, 1787–1842
Author: R. Gravil
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2003-10-13
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 0230510337
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom 1787 to 1842, Wordsworth was preoccupied with the themes of loss and death, and with 'natural piety' in the lives of people and nations. Beginning with his consciousness of the Bards and Druids of Cumbria, this book treats Wordsworth's oeuvre , including the 'Gothic' juvenilia, The Ruined Cottage , Lyrical Ballads , Poems in Two Volumes , The Excursion , and the Poems of 1842, as unified by a Bardic vocation, to bind 'the living and the dead' and to nurture 'the kind'.
Romanticism, Medicine, and the Poet's Body
Author: James Robert Allard
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-08
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1317061357
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThat medicine becomes professionalized at the very moment that literature becomes "Romantic" is an important coincidence, and James Allard makes the most of it. His book restores the physical body to its proper place in Romantic studies by exploring the status of the human body during the period. With meticulous detail, he documents the way medical discourse consolidates a body susceptible to medical authority that is then represented in the works of Romantic era poets. In doing so, he attends not only to the history of medicine's professionalization but significantly to the rhetoric of legitimation that advances the authority of doctors over the bodies of patients and readers alike. After surveying trends in Romantic-era medicine and analyzing the body's treatment in key texts by Wordsworth and Joanna Baillie, Allard moves quickly to his central subject-the Poet-Physician. This hybrid figure, discovered in the works of the medically trained John Keats, John Thelwall, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, embodies the struggles occasioned by the discrepancies and affinities between medicine and poetry.
John Thelwall and the Materialist Imagination
Author: Yasmin Solomonescu
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-07-17
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 1137426144
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Thelwall and the Materialist Imagination reassesses Thelwall's eclectic body of work from the perspective of his heterodox materialist arguments about the imagination, political reform, and the principle of life itself, and his contributions to Romantic-era science.
