Gilbert Imlay
Citizen of the World
1st Edition
Published on 22. May 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
314 pages
978-1-138-11163-9 (ISBN)
Description
A biography of the American Gilbert Imlay (c 1754 - c 1828), revolutionary war veteran - and infamous lover of Mary Wollstonecraft. It also highlights how Imlay unwittingly acted as an intermediary between figures of greater significance, whose ideas, ambitions and schemes he frequently borrowed and disseminated across the Atlantic and continents.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
483 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-11163-9 (9781138111639)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
02/2008
1st Edition
Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd
€171.40
Shipment within 3-4 weeks
Person
Wil Verhoeven
Content
Prologue: The Many Lives of Gilbert Imlay; I: America; 1: War Child and Soldier; 2: Land-Jobber A La Mode; 3: Friends in High Places; 4: Slave Trader; II: England; 5: Authority on the American West; 6: Jacobin Novelist and Defender of the Rights of Woman; III: France; 7: Expat Radical and Conspirator; 8: Purveyor to the French Revolution; 9: Blockade Runner and Infamous Lover; Epilogue: Lost in Speculation