James Grande: 3 books
by James Grande, John Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Politician, journalist, reformer, convict, social commentator and all-round thorn in the side of the establishment, William Cobbett cut a swathe through late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century British society with his copious and acerbic writings on any and every issue that caught his attention....
William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England
Radicalism and the Fourth Estate, 1792-1835
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England offers a thorough re-appraisal of William Cobbett (1763-1835), situating his journalism and rural radicalism in relation to contemporary political debates.
William Cobbett, Romanticism and the Enlightenment
Contexts and Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Cobbett was one of the greatest journalists of his day. Following a career in the British army he began writing as the loyalist 'Peter Porcupine' in the United States, defending all things British against the French Revolution and its supporters. This is the first collection on Cobbett and contains essays by scholars from a variety of disciplines.