Scotland's Pariah : : The Life and Work of John Pinkerton, 1758-1826 / / Patrick O'Flaherty.
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,...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter ACUP Complete eBook-Package 2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2014] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) |
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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