{"product_id":"the-daughter-of-adoption-1801-9781554810635","title":"The Daughter of Adoption (1801)","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Thelwall’s \u003cem\u003eThe Daughter of Adoption: A Tale of Modern Times\u003c\/em\u003e is a witty and wide-ranging work in which the picaresque and sentimental novel of the eighteenth century confronts the revolutionary ideas and forms of the Romantic period. Thelwall puts his two main characters, the conflicted English gentleman Henry Montfort and the Creole Seraphina Parkinson, through their paces in a slave rebellion in Haiti, where they barely escape with their lives, and in London society, where Henry almost loses his soul. Combining political analysis with melodrama and flat-out farce, \u003cem\u003eDaughter\u003c\/em\u003e expands the scope of the abolitionist novel, pushing the argument beyond the slave trade to challenge empire and racial superiority.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistorical materials on Thelwall’s life, the abolitionist movement, and eighteenth-century educational theories provide a detailed context for the novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This edition of \u003cem\u003eThe Daughter of Adoption\u003c\/em\u003e at last makes this multifaceted work available for general readers and classroom use. The editors have done a terrific job of situating both Thelwall and his novel as central to a reconception of the literary—including fiction, drama, and poetry, but also political, philosophical, and educational writing. Even more critically, they highlight the link between the written and oral language arts in Thelwall’s radicalism. The introduction overflows with connections to key debates and events of the 1790s and gestures toward nearly every major literary thread and cultural concern of the turn between Enlightenment and Romanticism.” — Miriam Wallace, New College of Florida\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Eagerly read and distributed by his former associates in the radical movement of the 1790s, John Thelwall’s \u003cem\u003eThe Daughter of Adoption\u003c\/em\u003e stands at the confluence of the many intellectual trends that fed into nineteenth-century literature. Recent scholarly work, to which the editors of this volume have made major contributions, has shown Thelwall’s importance to the emergent forms of Romantic poetry, not least via his personal and poetic dialogues with Wordsworth and Coleridge. Now this edition gives us the opportunity to see the themes of his radical prose and lectures of the 1790s being turned into a groundbreaking work of fiction. Exploring issues and techniques broached by novels such as Godwin’s \u003cem\u003eCaleb Williams\u003c\/em\u003e and Wollstonecraft’s \u003cem\u003eMaria\u003c\/em\u003e, it gives the question of freedom a global dimension via its depiction of a slave revolt in Haiti. The result is a complex but compelling work of fiction.” — Jon Mee, University of Warwick\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eJohn Thelwall and His World: A Brief Chronology\u003cbr\u003eA Note on the Text\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Daughter of Adoption; A Tale of Modern Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix A: Biographical Documents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom John Thelwall, “Prefatory Memoir,” \u003cem\u003ePoems, Chiefly Written in Retirement\u003c\/em\u003e (1801)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom John Thelwall to Susan Thelwall (18 July 1797)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom John Thelwall to Dr. Peter Crompton (3 March 1798)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom John Thelwall, \u003cem\u003eA Letter to Francis Jeffray\u003c\/em\u003e [sic], \u003cem\u003eEsq\u003c\/em\u003e. (1804)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom Samuel Taylor Coleridge, \u003cem\u003eSpecimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge\u003c\/em\u003e (1835)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom William Wordsworth to Henrietta Cecil Thelwall (16 November 1838)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom William Wordsworth, Notes Dictated to Isabella Fenwick, first published as Notes in the \u003cem\u003ePoetical Works\u003c\/em\u003e (1857)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix B: Contextual Documents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLiterature and Education\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom Henry Fielding, \u003cem\u003eThe History of Tom Jones, a Foundling\u003c\/em\u003e (1749)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom Thomas Day, \u003cem\u003eThe History of Sandford and Merton\u003c\/em\u003e (1783-89)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom John Thelwall, \u003cem\u003eThe Peripatetic\u003c\/em\u003e (1793)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom Richard and Maria Edgeworth, \u003cem\u003ePractical Education \u003c\/em\u003e(1801)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom John Thelwall, \u003cem\u003eIntroductory Discourse on the Nature and Objects of Elocutionary Science\u003c\/em\u003e (1805)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom John Thelwall, “The Historical and Oratorical Society,” \u003cem\u003eA Letter to Henry Cline\u003c\/em\u003e (1810)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe West Indies and the Abolition Debate\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom John Thelwall, “The Connection between the Calamities of the Present Reign, and the System of Borough-Mongering Corruption,” \u003cem\u003eThe Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e (1795-96)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom John Thelwall, \u003cem\u003eRights of Nature, against the Usurpations of Establishments\u003c\/em\u003e (1796)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom Baron de Wimpffen, \u003cem\u003eA Voyage to Saint Domingo, in the Years 1788, 1789, and 1790\u003c\/em\u003e (1797)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom Bryan Edwards, \u003cem\u003eAn Historical Survey of the French Colony in the Island of St. Domingo\u003c\/em\u003e (1798)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom John Thelwall, “The Negro’s Prayer,” \u003cem\u003eMonthly Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e (April 1807)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Revolution Debate\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom Mary Wollstonecraft, \u003cem\u003eA Vindication of the Rights of Woman\u003c\/em\u003e (1792)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom William Godwin, \u003cem\u003eAn Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness\u003c\/em\u003e (1798)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix C: Reviews of \u003cem\u003eThe Daughter of Adoption\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eCritical Review\u003c\/em\u003e (February 1801)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eMonthly Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e (20 July 1801)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eMonthly Review\u003c\/em\u003e (August 1801)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eAnnals of Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e (1801)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThelwall’s Reply to the Reviews, from “Prefatory Memoir,” Poems, \u003cem\u003eChiefly Written in Retirement\u003c\/em\u003e (1801)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorks Cited and Recommended Reading\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadview Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041310900567,"sku":"9781554810635","price":27.86,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781554810635.jpg?v=1750949760","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-daughter-of-adoption-1801-9781554810635","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}