Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-1796
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Köp båda 2 för 6246 krMortality John Barrell's book crosses the boundaries between literary criticism and history. It throws light not just upon the changing use of language and its deployment, but on the operation of the law in the 18th century, the use of propaganda, the exercise of state power and the ability of opponents of government both to defend themselves and to attack their oppressors.
Mortality Replete with primary source material, a mastery of historical detail and a range of careful and subtly crafted arguments ... fascinating and scholarly enquiry.
The Review of English Studies From playbills to trial transcripts, from caricatures to poems, from pamphlets to parliamentary debates: all of these are brought marvellously alive by Barrell ... but the real significance of Imagining the King's Death seems to me to be the challenge it sets to those of us who would wish to read the culture of the past in the fullest way imaginable
H. T. Dickinson, Times Literary Supplement A review cannot do more than sketch in the detailed subject matter and the closely argued thesis presented in a book of this length, complexity and subtlety. What needs to be made abundantly clear is that this is a work of the finest scholarship. Imagining the King's Death is deeply researched, rigorously argued and beautifully written. What makes it a work of such distinction is its originality ... Historians of all kinds will learn from John Barrell's efforts that they have much to learn from such a detailed, rigorous and sophisticated reading of vitally important political texts.
The Times Higher Education Supplement 07/12/2001 The detail is meticulous and the account magisterial ... Barrell's grasp of legal argument and distortion, his detailed reconstruction of the activities of the reformers and those who sought to restrain them, and his literary eye for ambiguity and rhetorical play make the book a magnificent achievement.
John Barrell is Professor of English and Co-Director, Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York.
Introduction; PART ONE: SAD STORIES; The Last Interview; 'When Kings Are Hurled From Their Thrones'; PART TWO: THE INVENTION OF MODERN TREASON; Convention and Conspiracy; The British Convention; The Trial of Thomas Walker; Secret Committees; The Arming of the L.C.S; Parliament and Prejudication; The Trials of Watt and Downie; The Charge to the Grand Jury; The Trial of Thomas Hardy; The Trials of Tooke and Thelwall; 'A Conspiracy without Conspirators'; PART THREE: ALARMS AND DIVERSIONS; The Pop-Gun Plot; Traitor or Lunatic: The Arrest of Richard Brothers; PART FOUR: PHANTOMS OF IMAGINATION; The Treasonable Practices Act; King Killing; Epilogue: 'Fire, Famine, And Slaughter'; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index