The vagabond : a novel
First published in London in 1799, The Vagabond was an immediate popular success. Critizing Jacobinism (or pro-revolutionary political sentiment), this novel's satirical descriptions of many of the historical figures who fought in the forefront of the ""British Revolution"" are full of playful banter and farce.
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9781551113753, 1551113759
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AcknowledgementsIntroductionA Note on the TextThe VagabondNotesA Note on the AppendicesAppendix A: Sources and Contexts: The Jacobin Side of the Revolutionary DebateFrom David Hume, “An Abstract of a Book Lately Published, Entitled A Treatise of Human Nature, &c.” (1740)From John James Rousseau [Jean-Jacques Rousseau], The Social Contract (1762)From Joseph Priestley, Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit (1777)From Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, Part One (1791)From Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)From William Godwin, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness(1793)From Gilbert Imlay, The Emigrants, &c.; or, The History of an Expatriated Family (1793)Writings on “Pantisocracy”From Samuel Coleridge, Collected Letters of Samuel ColeridgeFrom a letter by Thomas Poole to Mr. Hoskins (1794)Two poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge“Pantistocracy” (1794)“On the Prospect of Establishing a Pantisocracy in America” (1794)From John Thelwall, “A Warning Voice to the Violent of All Parties” (1795)From William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1798)From William Godwin, Thoughts occasioned by the perusal of Dr. Parr’s Spital Sermon (1801)Appendix B: Sources and Contexts: The Anti-Jacobin Side of the Revolutionary DebateFrom Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)From Anon., “Proceedings of the Friends to the Abuse of the Liberty of the Press” (1793)From William Playfair, Peace with the Jacobins Impossible (1794)From Peter Porcupine [William Cobbett], Observations on the Emigration of Dr. Joseph Priestley (1794)From Anon., Letters on Emigration. By a Gentleman, Lately Returned from America (1794)From Thomas Robert Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)Appendix C: Contemporary ReviewsAnalytical Review (February 1799)From the Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine (February 1799)New London Review (April 1799)Critical Review (June 1799)Monthly Magazine (20 July 1799)Monthly Mirror (March 1800)British Critic (April 1800)From the British Critic (October 1800)Select Bibliography