John Thelwall: Radical Romantic and Acquitted Felon

Steve Poole

Preface, Steve Poole; Introduction: The Character and Reputation of an ‘Acquitted Felon’, Steve Poole; Chapter 1 The Lives of John Thelwall: Another View of The ‘Jacobin Fox’, Nicholas Roe; Chapter 2 Usual and Unusual Suspects: John Thelwall, William Godwin and Pitt’s Reign of Terror, Kenneth R. Johnston; Chapter 3 Thelwall in his Own Defence: The Natural and Constitutional Right of Britons, John Barrell; Chapter 4 Labour, Contingency, Utility: Thelwall’s Theory of Property, Robert Lamb; Chapter 5 ‘A Loud, A Fervid, and Resolute Remonstrance With Our Rulers’: John Thelwall, The People and Political Economy, Richard Sheldon; Chapter 6 John Thelwall’s Radical Vision of Democracy, Georgina Green; Chapter 7 Articulations of Community in The Peripatetic, Yasmin Solomonescu; Chapter 8 Domestic Invasions: John Thelwall and the Exploitation of Privacy, Corinna Wagner; Chapter 9 The Dungeon and the Cell: The Prison Verse of Coleridge and Thelwall, Jon Mee; Chapter 10 Thelwall’s Two Plays Against Empire, Incle and Yarico (1787) and The Incas (1792), Michael Scrivener; Chapter 11 A ‘Double-Visag’d Fate’: John Thelwall and the Hapless Hope of Albion, Judith Thompson; Chapter 12 The Conceptual Underpinnings of John Thelwall’s Elocutionary Practices, Judith Felson Duchan; Chapter 13 Tracing the Textual Reverberation: The Role of Thelwall’s Elocutionary Selections in the British Lyceum, Tara-Lynn Fleming; Chapter 14 ‘Not Precedents to be Followed, but Examples to be Weighed’: John Thelwall and the Jacobin Sense of the Past, Steve Poole;