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Article: Judith Thompson, editor. John Thelwall's The Peripatetic (1793).(Book review)
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- Studies in Romanticism
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- September 22, 2006
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Judith Thompson, editor. John Thelwall's The Peripatetic (1793). Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2001. Pp. 447. Introduction and appendices. $39.95 cloth.
Students of romanticism, revolution, and democracy have been presented a valuable tool in this overdue scholarly edition of John Thelwall's The Peripatetic. In terms of biography alone Thelwall is by any standard one of the most fascinating personages in political-literary history. Tried and acquitted for high treason in 1794, he was a key theorist, organizer, and probably the greatest orator of the movement for radical democratic reform in 1790's England. Moreover he was a poet, sentimental novelist, ...
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Thesaurus entry: peripatetic
The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English;
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...peripatetic • adjective 1. peripatetic tribes synonyms : itinerant, traveling, wandering, roving, roaming, nomadic, migrant, migratory. 2. peripatetic teachers/libraries synonyms : itinerant, traveling, mobile.
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