Youth and Revolution in the 1790s: Letters of William Pattisson, Thomas Amyot and Henry Crabb RobinsonA. Sutton, 1996 - 200 páginas The 1790s were an extraordinary decade, with revolution in France and hopes of democratic reform in England. Recently it has been argued that patriotic Englishmen hastened to the banner of conservatism, in opposition to the turmoil of events in France. Yet, as this book shows, the English response was far more complex and interesting than that. Youth and Revolution in the 1790s publishes and analyses for the first time the recently discovered letters of three young English reformers in those heady days. It shows that patriotic Englishmen were not automatically conservative and anti-French. Instead, trainee lawyers William Pattisson, Thomas Amyot and Henry Crabb Robinson - who wrote candidly to each other from their homes in Witham, Norwich and London - discussed intently the case for reform. Their letters provide a unique insight into the intellectual and political milieu of English radicalism. In addition, the correspondence provides enough clues to the identity of the anonymous authors of The Cabinet, described by E.P. Thompson as 'the most impressive of the quasi-Jacobin publications of the period', to enable the editors to provide a list of the contributors to this key publication and to throw new light on the excitements and tensions of English radicalism in this period. |
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... country ' antagonism towards an overweening ' court ' and arbitrary power , drawing upon the resentment of an excluded gentry at the corruption of metropolitan politics . Yet the Wilkite movement did not simply recapitulate these ...
... country ' antagonism towards an overweening ' court ' and arbitrary power , drawing upon the resentment of an excluded gentry at the corruption of metropolitan politics . Yet the Wilkite movement did not simply recapitulate these ...
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... Country . He however attempted to justify them in the manner they were said to be spoken comparing them with the Context , & so far he may be said to have adopted them if he did not speak them . 15 Considering the diametrical opposition ...
... Country . He however attempted to justify them in the manner they were said to be spoken comparing them with the Context , & so far he may be said to have adopted them if he did not speak them . 15 Considering the diametrical opposition ...
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... Country . I believe an English Peasant knows very little more of the Transactions of his ancestors that he is informed by Tradition on the return of the 30th of January 29th of May & 5th of November.2 National Festivals were used by the ...
... Country . I believe an English Peasant knows very little more of the Transactions of his ancestors that he is informed by Tradition on the return of the 30th of January 29th of May & 5th of November.2 National Festivals were used by the ...
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Introduction 1 by Penelope J Corfield | 1 |
Introduction 2 by Chris Evans | 21 |
Part II | 41 |
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