The Vagabond Paperback / softback
by George Walker
Edited by W.M. Verhoeven
Part of the Broadview Editions series
Paperback / softback
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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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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:389 pages
- Publisher:Broadview Press Ltd
- Publication Date:30/09/2004
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- ISBN:9781551113753
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:389 pages
- Publisher:Broadview Press Ltd
- Publication Date:30/09/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9781551113753