Richard Polwhele and Romantic Culture: The Politics of Reaction and the Poetics of Place

by Dafydd Moore

Book Overview

Richard Polwhele was a writer of rare energies. Today known only for The Unsex'd Females and its attack on radical women writers, Polwhele was a historian, translator, memoirist, and poet. As an indigent Cornish gentleman clergyman and JP, his extensive written output encompassed sermons, open letters, and even headstone verse. This book recovers the lost Polwhele, locating him within an archipelagic understanding of the vitality and complexity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367651599
• ISBN13: 9780367651596
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"