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'A Political Dictionary Explaining the True Meaning of Words' by Charles Pigott - A Facsimile of the 1795 Edition (Hardcover, Facsimile Ed)
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'A Political Dictionary Explaining the True Meaning of Words' by Charles Pigott - A Facsimile of the 1795 Edition (Hardcover, Facsimile Ed)
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Considering the fact that Charles Pigott's satirical A Political
Dictionary (1795) is regularly quoted and referred to in analyses
of late eighteenth-century radical culture, it is surprising that
until now it has remained unavailable to readers outside of a few
specialised research libraries. Until his death on the 24th of June
1794, Pigott was one of England's most prolific satirists in the
decade of revolutionary unrest following the French Revolution,
writing a number of pamphlets and plays of which only a small
proportion have survived. Pigott finished A Political Dictionary in
prison, where he served a sentence for sedition. He died before his
release and the book was published posthumously. The Dictionary was
a brilliant satire on the "language of Aristocracy" and combined
radical politics with a high entertainment value. Indeed, part of
what he wrote was considered so scurrilous that the printer left
out certain lines in the printed version. Modern scholars will find
Pigott's work an unrivalled resource for mapping the rhetorical
landscape of political debate in the 1790s, and one that yields a
unique insight into the sentiments and rhetoric of radical
discourse. The text stands as a convenient handbook, providing some
of the wittiest and most acidic turns on familiar satirical
conventions of the time, such as the "swinish multitude" metaphor
and the comparison of King George III to the mad King
Nebuchadnezzar. It will be an invaluable aid to students and
researchers of the period - both as a highly amusing source of
illustrative quotations, and as an encyclopaedia over the central
sites of ideological struggle at the time.
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