The Novels and Selected Plays of Thomas Holcroft (The Pickering Masters)
The Novels and Selected Plays of Thomas Holcroft (The Pickering Masters)
by W. M. Verhoeven
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Book Summary
Thomas Holcroft (1745-1809) was a key figure in the radical movement of the
1790s. Recognised by Coleridge as an energetic proponent of atheism, and
pronounced by Godwin as one of his 'four principal oral instructors', Holcroft
was an original if somewhat undisciplined thinker, a talented novelist, a
popular playwright and translator, and an accomplished political pamphleteer.
His novels can be seen as the missing link between the explicitly feminist
novels of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays and Charlotte Smith, and the explicitly
political, speculative novels of William Godwin and Robert Bage. A close friend
of Godwin, the most dramatic moment in his life was imprisonment for high
treason and
ISBN-13
9781851968015
Language
English
Binding
Hard Bound
Publisher
Pickering & Chatto Ltd
Publishing Date
2007-01-01
Total Pages
2064
The Novels and Selected Plays of Thomas Holcroft (The Pickering Masters)
Thomas Holcroft (1745-1809) was a key figure in the radical movement of the
1790s. Recognised by Coleridge as an energetic proponent of atheism, and
pronounced by Godwin as one of his 'four principal oral instructors', Holcroft
was an original if somewhat undisciplined thinker, a talented novelist, a
popular playwright and translator, and an accomplished political pamphleteer.
His novels can be seen as the missing link between the explicitly feminist
novels of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays and Charlotte Smith, and the explicitly
political, speculative novels of William Godwin and Robert Bage. A close friend
of Godwin, the most dramatic moment in his life was imprisonment for high
treason and