Scotland's Pariah : : The Life and Work of John Pinkerton, 1758-1826 / / Patrick O'Flaherty.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter ACUP Complete eBook-Package 2015
• VerfasserIn: O'Flaherty, Patrick,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2014]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.)

Scotland’s Pariah is the first book to examine the remarkable life of John Pinkerton: antiquarian, poet, forger, cartographer, historian, serial adulterer, bigamist, and religious skeptic. A pugnacious and persistent man of letters who knew and was admired by literary masters such as Edward Gibbon, Horace Walpole, and William Godwin, Pinkerton’s life was full of personal and professional misadventures.Patrick O’Flaherty’s biography presents an engrossing account of Pinkerton’s life and works from his early years in Scotland to his Parisian exile, covering his major editorial, antiquarian, and geographic works. Examining Pinkerton’s involvement in the London literary scene, his conflicted relationship with the rise of Celtic nationalism, and his response to early literary romanticism, Scotland’s Pariah is a shrewd and compassionate evaluation of an astonishing literary life.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Permissions -- 1. Youth, 1758–1781 -- 2. Finding His Way, 1782–1789 -- 3. The Great Work, 1790–1797 -- 4. Reviewer and Geographer, 1798–1802 -- 5. Paris Interlude, 1802–1805 -- 6. The Dishonoured Veteran, 1806–1814 -- 7. A Banished Man, 1815–1826 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index