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The Vagabond
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The Vagabond Paperback - 2004

by Walker, George

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  • Title The Vagabond
  • Author Walker, George
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 389
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Broadview Press, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
  • Date 2004-09
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 18639637-6
  • ISBN 9781551113753 / 1551113759
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.5 x 1 in (21.34 x 13.97 x 2.54 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005270102
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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From the rear cover

First published in 1799, George Walker's The Vagabond was an immediate popular success. Offering a vitriolic critique of post-Bastille Jacobinism and sansculotte-style mob rule, its true-to-life satirical portraits of many of the radical men and women who fought in the forefront of the "British Revolution" are nonetheless full of playful banter and farce. With swipes at Hume, Rousseau, Godwin, Wollstonecraft, and Paine; the French Revolution; and the ideas of the noble savage, natural virtue, liberty, equality, and romantic primitivism, The Vagabond offers a unique cross-section of 1790s radicalism.

This Broadview edition contains a critical introduction and a wide selection of primary source materials that situate the novel in the context of the revolutionary debate of the 1790s. Appendices include contemporary reviews of the novel and excerpts from the writings of a variety of radicals and reactionaries engaged in the debate, such as Hume, Rousseau, Paine, Thelwall, Wollstonecraft, Godwin, Burke, Playfair, Malthus, and Cobbett, among many others.

About the author

W.M. Verhoeven is Professor of American Culture and Cultural Theory at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. His publications include Revolutionary Histories: Transatlantic Cultural Nationalism, 1775-1815 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002) and Epistolary Histories: Letters, Fiction, Culture (with Amanda Gilroy, University of Virginia Press, 2000). He is also general editor of the ten-volume Anti-Jacobin Novels for Pickering & Chatto Publishers.