HERMSPRON MAN HE 3VL (The Novel, 1720-1805 ; 13) - Hardcover

Bage

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 082403662X ISBN 13: 9780824036621

Publisher: Dissertations-G, 1979

Synopsis

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Harvard University Houghton Library

N017626

Author of Man as he is = Robert Bage.

London : printed for William Lane, at the Minerva-Press, 1796. 3v. ; 12°

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Robert Bage’s Hermsprong satirizes English society of the 1790s targeting, in particular, corrupt clergymen, grasping lawyers and wicked aristocrats. The protagonist, a European raised among Native Americans, visits Europe and is dismayed by what he encounters. While such satire might seem conventional enough, Hermsprong is distinguished from other political novels of the period by its comedy, and it is a measure of Bage’s success that he won the admiration of writers as different in political outlook as Mary Wollstonecraft and Sir Walter Scott. Indeed, Hermsprong is built around debate, and celebrates the pleasures of the lively exchange of ideas.

This Broadview edition contains extensive primary source appendices including material by William Godwin, Benjamin Franklin, Pierre de Charlevoix, and Voltaire.

About the Author:

Pamela Perkins has written on Romantic literature and is the editor (with Shannon Russell) of the Broadview Literary Texts edition of Translations of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah. She teaches English at the University of Manitoba.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dissertations-G
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 082403662X
• ISBN 13: 9780824036621
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 3