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Informationen zum Autor Robert Rix Klappentext 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 specialised research libraries. Until his death on 24 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 part has survived. 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. Zusammenfassung The Political Dictionary of English radical political journalist Pigott (author of The Jockey Club: or, A Sketch of the Manners of the Age , a famous attack on the Newmarket aristocracy) was first published posthumously in 1795. The work is less a dictionary than an attack on the "language of aristo Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Editions of Pigott's works cited; Introduction; A Political Dictionary Explaining the True Meaning of Words; Annotations; Cast of characters; Bibliography.
