Buch, Englisch, 314 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 483 g
Citizen of the World
Buch, Englisch, 314 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 483 g
ISBN: 978-1-138-11163-9
Verlag: Routledge
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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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