Abstract
An essay in review, critically reconsidering the political writings of John Thelwall (1764-1834), radical democrat, republican, political theorist, pioeer speech therapist and Romantic poet.
Highlights
As this special issue of Romanticism demonstrates unequivocally, John Thelwall is attracting a good deal more interest than he did during the later years of his own life
His practice was to speak ‘from short notes. . . which in reality can be intelligible to no-one but myself’, from a ‘hasty and imperfect outline’, and was it time-consuming to fill them out for publication, but ‘it is so much more profitable to talk to mankind than to write for them’(iv. 75, 85)
If we are to presume past neglect of Thelwall’s later years a judgement of sorts upon his self-proclaimed retirement from politics, we should not be surprised if a new generation of Thelwall scholars re-focus their
Summary
As this special issue of Romanticism demonstrates unequivocally, John Thelwall is attracting a good deal more interest than he did during the later years of his own life.
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