Georgina Green, The Majesty of the People: Popular Sovereignty and the Role of the Writer in the 1790s

Authors

  • Ian Newman University of Notre Dame

Keywords:

Georgina Green, French Revolution, John Thelwall, William Godwin, William Wordsworth, Helen Maria Williams, Thomas Paine, Raymond Williams, Hannah Arendt Sovereignty, Politics, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Political Philosophy, Popular Culture

Abstract

Review by Ian Newman (University of Notre Dame) of Georgina Green, The Majesty of the People: Popular Sovereignty and the Role of the Writer in the 1790s. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. 229. £60. ISBN 9780199689064.

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Published

07-05-2016

Issue

No. 47 (2016)

Section

Reviews