Five long winters the trials of British Romanticism

✍ Scribed by Bugg, John;

• Book ID: 100049047
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Year: 2013;2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0804787301

✦ Synopsis

Introduction : the repressive 1790s -- Plots discovered : Coleridge, Godwin, and the 1795 gagging acts -- Close confinement : John Thelwall and the romantic prison -- "Hell broth" : the trials of Benjamin Flower -- "By force, or openly, what could be done" : Godwin, Smith, Wollstonecraft, and the gagging acts novel -- "I cannot tell" : Wordsworth's gagging acts -- Epilogue : Wordsworth and the death of Pitt.