To Stir up the People
John Barrell: Pitt’s Reign of Alarm, 23 January 2014
Unusual Suspects: Pitt’s Reign of Alarm and the Lost Generation of the 1790s
by Kenneth Johnston.
Oxford, 376 pp., £30, July 2013,978 0 19 965780 3 Show More
by Kenneth Johnston.
Oxford, 376 pp., £30, July 2013,
“... begins with a comparison of the careers of William Godwin, the philosopher and novelist, and John Thelwall, the leading orator of the popular reform movement and author of The Peripatetic, one of the very best, most unread and most unclassifiable works of the 18th century: part novel, part travel journal, part satire, part commentary on the state of the ... ”