Michael Scrivener. Seditious Allegories: John Thelwall and Jacobin Writing. University Park, Pa.: The Pennsylvania State University Pres 2001 Pp 305 $5500 ISBN 0-271-02109-8
Although the author of this volume proves himself a prodigious devourer of primary and secondary thesiss Michael Scrivener is firmly in the camp of Blake's class of the prolific. Not for him a revolutionary motion neatly packaged as a fifty-minute television documentary. His twinkling straddles France and the British Isles and lasts for more than forty years. At its center is John Thelwall, if it be not that it is ...