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Re-Viewing Thomas Holcroft, 1745-1809 - Essays on His Works and Life (Paperback)
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Re-Viewing Thomas Holcroft, 1745-1809 - Essays on His Works and Life (Paperback)
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Thomas Holcroft was a central figure of the 1790s, whose texts
played an important role in the transition toward Romanticism. In
this, the first essay collection devoted to his life and work, the
contributors reassess Holcroft's contributions to a remarkable
range of literary genres-drama, poetry, fiction, autobiography,
political philosophy-and to the project of revolutionary reform in
the late eighteenth century. The self-educated son of a cobbler,
Holcroft transformed himself into a popular playwright, influential
reformist novelist, and controversial political radical. But his
work is not important merely because he himself was a remarkable
character, but rather because he was a hinge figure between
laboring Britons and the dissenting intelligentsia, between
Enlightenment traditions and developing 'Romantic' concerns, and
between the world of self-made hack writers and that of established
critics. Enhanced by an updated and corrected chronology of
Holcroft's life and work, key images, and a full bibliography of
published scholarship, this volume makes way for more concerted and
focused scholarship and teaching on Holcroft. Taken together, the
essays in this collection situate Holcroft's self-fashioning as a
member of London's literati, his central role among the London
radical reformers and intelligentsia, and his theatrical
innovations within ongoing explorations of the late
eighteenth-century public sphere of letters and debate.
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