Thomas Holcroft's revolutionary drama : reception and afterlives /
A key figure in British literary circles following the French Revolution, novelist and playwright Thomas Holcroft promoted ideas of reform and equality informed by the philosophy of his close friend William Godwin. Arrested for treason in 1794 and released without trial, Holcroft was notorious in hi...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Lewisburg, Pennsylvania :
Bucknell University Press,
[2023]
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| Series: | Transits: Literature, Thought and Culture, 1650-1850 Ser.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3300939 |
Table of Contents:
- Thomas Holcroft and the treason trials
- The road to ruin and its afterlives
- Radicalism, authorship and sincerity in Holcroft's later plays
- Holcroft's diary and other life writing
- Holcroft's melodrama
- Final years and other afterlives.