A Political Biography of John Toland (Eighteenth-Century Political Biographies)

✍ Scribed by Michael Brown

• Publisher: Pickering & Chatto Ltd
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 207
• Series: Eighteenth-Century Political Biographies
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

John Toland was notorious. Condemned by the Middlesex Grand Jury and the Irish parliament for authoring Christianity Not Mysterious (1696), he was to spend much of his career on the heterodox fringes of intellectual life in Britain and beyond. Yet he was also an intimate of a series of influential politicians and played a crucial part in the Hanoverian succession of 1714. A pamphleteer, a polemicist and a prankster of the first order, modern scholarship has struggled to position his writings within the debates of his day. This study is the first to fully recount his remarkable biography, and to situate his writings fully within the controversies that shaped them.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Introduction......Page 12
1. Ireland, 1670–97......Page 32
2. London, 1697–1700......Page 52
3. Hanover, 1701–7......Page 74
4. The Hague, 1708–10......Page 100
5. Epsom, 1711–16......Page 116
6. Putney, 1717–22......Page 138
Notes......Page 160
Works Cited......Page 188
Index......Page 200