Wil Verhoeven

Gilbert Imlay (eBook, PDF)

Citizen of the World

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317303619
• Artikelnr.: 43977552

Autorenporträt

Wil Verhoeven

Inhaltsangabe

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