
Gilbert Imlay
Citizen of the World
Wil Verhoeven(Author)
Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd
1st Edition
Published on 1. February 2008
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-1-85196-859-6 (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.
Reviews / Votes
'This deeply researched, richly contextual study is essential reading not just for scholars of the Godwin-Wollstonecraft circle, but for all those interested in the revolutionary upheavals of the late eighteenth century.' Keats-Shelley Journal 'His [Imlay's] reverberating story as retold through Verhoeven's pioneering scholarship will be of interest to Romanticists, historians of early American history and scholars of eighteenth-century English and American literature and women's studies.' Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net 'Overall, Verhoeven's biography is a methodically researched and fluidly written account of Imlay's life.' Journal of the Early Republic 'The author is especially adept at weaving complex empirical reconstruction of mundane circumstances with narrative and with the incisive analysis of thick textual materials.' The William and Mary Quarterly '[Verhoeven's] ten year's archival research...add substantially to our picture of Imlay, despite the paucity of data.' Times Literary SupplementMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
637 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85196-859-6 (9781851968596)
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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