Unusual Suspects tells the fascinating lost stories of the right people in the right place at the wrong time: liberal intellectuals in 'free-born' Britain during a 'McCarthyite' decade when unguarded expressions of enthusiasm for political reform caused irrevocable damage to many careers.
Unusual Suspects tells the fascinating lost stories of the right people in the right place at the wrong time: liberal intellectuals in 'free-born' Britain during a 'McCarthyite' decade when unguarded expressions of enthusiasm for political reform caused irrevocable damage to many careers.
Kenneth R. Johnston received his PhD from Yale University and spent his entire academic career at Indiana University, where he was honored for distinguished teaching and scholarly achievement, while also heading its Department of English. He is author of Wordsworth and 'The Recluse' and The Hidden Wordsworth: Poet, Lover, Rebel, Spy, and editor of Romantic Revolutions. The Hidden Wordsworth won the 1999 Barricelli Prize for outstanding contribution to Romantic studies, and was named to several Book of the Year lists in both UK and US. He now resides in Chicago.
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Preamble: 'Who are these people?' I. The Red Decade Usual and Unusual in 1790s Britain Before and After Lives: John Thelwall and William Godwin II. The Forces of Public Opinion Joseph Priestley, 'Dr. Phlogiston' James Montgomery, Radical Moravian III. Keeping the University and Church Safe from Reform William Frend, 'Frend of Jesus, friend of the Devil' Thomas Beddoes, Sr., No Laughing Matter IV. Other Voices, Other Places The Suspect Gender: Helen Maria Williams, Our Paris Correspondent Suspect Nations: William Drennan, 'Let Irishmen remain sulky, grave and watchful' Generic Suspicions: Robert Bage, The Novelist Who Was Not V. End-Games Gilbert Wakefield, The End of Controversy James Mackintosh, The Great Apostate: Judas, Brutus, or Thomas? VI. The Romantic Poets and the Police Spy Nozy in Somerset: 'A Gang of Disaffected Englishmen' Coleridge and Thelwall: 'Whispering Tongues Can Poison Truth' Wordsworth, The Prelude, and Posterity Robert Southey, More Radical Than Thou Charles Lamb, Radical in a lamb's cloak Robert Burns, 'A Man for a' That' Blake's America: The Prophecy that Failed Coda: 'What does it signify?' Appendix 1: Trials for Sedition and Treason, 1792-1798 Appendix 2: Wakefield's Juvenal
Preamble: 'Who are these people?' I. The Red Decade Usual and Unusual in 1790s Britain Before and After Lives: John Thelwall and William Godwin II. The Forces of Public Opinion Joseph Priestley, 'Dr. Phlogiston' James Montgomery, Radical Moravian III. Keeping the University and Church Safe from Reform William Frend, 'Frend of Jesus, friend of the Devil' Thomas Beddoes, Sr., No Laughing Matter IV. Other Voices, Other Places The Suspect Gender: Helen Maria Williams, Our Paris Correspondent Suspect Nations: William Drennan, 'Let Irishmen remain sulky, grave and watchful' Generic Suspicions: Robert Bage, The Novelist Who Was Not V. End-Games Gilbert Wakefield, The End of Controversy James Mackintosh, The Great Apostate: Judas, Brutus, or Thomas? VI. The Romantic Poets and the Police Spy Nozy in Somerset: 'A Gang of Disaffected Englishmen' Coleridge and Thelwall: 'Whispering Tongues Can Poison Truth' Wordsworth, The Prelude, and Posterity Robert Southey, More Radical Than Thou Charles Lamb, Radical in a lamb's cloak Robert Burns, 'A Man for a' That' Blake's America: The Prophecy that Failed Coda: 'What does it signify?' Appendix 1: Trials for Sedition and Treason, 1792-1798 Appendix 2: Wakefield's Juvenal
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