Thomas Holcroft’s Revolutionary Drama : : Reception and Afterlives / / Amy Garnai.
A key figure in British literary circles following the French Revolution, novelist and playwright Thomas Holcroft promoted ideas of reform and equality informed by the philosophy of his close friend William Godwin. Arrested for treason in 1794 and released without trial, Holcroft was notorious in hi...
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Place / Publishing House: | Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 7 color illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 THOMAS HOLCROFT AND THE TREASON TRIALS
- 2 THE ROAD TO RUIN AND ITS AFTERLIVES
- 3 RADICALISM, AUTHORSHIP, AND SINCERITY IN HOLCROFT’S LATER PLAYS
- 4 HOLCROFT’S DIARY AND OTHER LIFE WRITING
- 5 HOLCROFT’S MELODRAMA
- 6 FINAL YEARS AND OTHER AFTERLIVES
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX