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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... radical circles in East Anglia provided him with the start of those extensive networks that formed the mainstay of his social life . Thus was formed the epistolary friendship between three rather shy and insecure young men . At that ...
... radical circles in East Anglia provided him with the start of those extensive networks that formed the mainstay of his social life . Thus was formed the epistolary friendship between three rather shy and insecure young men . At that ...
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... radical intelligentsia of East Anglia . Unlike Henry Crabb Robinson , he did not enjoy later fame as a literary diarist . He ended his life as a small - town notable in Witham , nothing more . He is distant from the canonical figures of ...
... radical intelligentsia of East Anglia . Unlike Henry Crabb Robinson , he did not enjoy later fame as a literary diarist . He ended his life as a small - town notable in Witham , nothing more . He is distant from the canonical figures of ...
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... radicals the question of law , the question of its provenance and operation , was a matter of some difficulty . How were law and justice to be reconciled ? Could one be both a lawyer and a friend of the people ? The radical camp had no ...
... radicals the question of law , the question of its provenance and operation , was a matter of some difficulty . How were law and justice to be reconciled ? Could one be both a lawyer and a friend of the people ? The radical camp had no ...
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Introduction 1 by Penelope J Corfield | 1 |
Introduction 2 by Chris Evans | 21 |
Part II | 41 |
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