Gilbert Imlay - Citizen of the World

Informationen zum Autor Wil Verhoeven Klappentext A biography of the American Gilbert Imlay (c 1754 - c 1828), revolutionary war veteran - and infamous lover of Mary Wollstonecraft. It also highlights how Imlay unwittingly acted as an intermediary between figures of greater significance, whose ideas, ambitions and schemes he frequently borrowed and disseminated across the Atlantic and continents. Zusammenfassung A biography of the American Gilbert Imlay (c 1754 - c 1828)! revolutionary war veteran - and infamous lover of Mary Wollstonecraft. It also highlights how Imlay unwittingly acted as an intermediary between figures of greater significance! whose ideas! ambitions and schemes he frequently borrowed and disseminated across the Atlantic and continents. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue: The Many Lives of Gilbert Imlay; I: America; 1: War Child and Soldier; 2: Land-Jobber À La Mode; 3: Friends in High Places; 4: Slave Trader; II: England; 5: Authority on the American West; 6: Jacobin Novelist and Defender of the Rights of Woman; III: France; 7: Expat Radical and Conspirator; 8: Purveyor to the French Revolution; 9: Blockade Runner and Infamous Lover; Epilogue: Lost in Speculation

Product details

• Authors: Wil Verhoeven
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.03.2008
• EAN: 9781851968596
• ISBN: 978-1-85196-859-6
• No. of pages: 299
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Cultural Studies, Biography: general, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social and cultural history, Biography: philosophy and social sciences