The Satire of Walker's Vagabond on Rousseau and Godwin
1937; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 52; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/458706
ISSN1938-1530
Autores Tópico(s)Joseph Conrad and Literature
ResumoGeorge Walker, a London bookseller and publisher, author of several Gothic tales, printed in 1799 a satirical novel, The Vagabond , directed against the Jacobins and their philosophic forerunners. The author's purpose was a serious one, to refute and counteract the works that had poured from the Jacobin presses. As a result the novel, though amusing and fanciful in the manner of the Anti-Jacobin , represents a consistent view-point and an earnest desire to show the beauties of society as then organized. In its way, it is a summary of the reactionary position, and, by giving the opinions of the opponents of Rousseau, Hume, Mary Wollstonecraft, Holcroft, Paine, William Godwin, and others, illustrates a large section of late eighteenth-century thought.
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