Conspiracy on Cato Street : a tale of liberty and revolution in Regency London /
"Well over a century ago Joseph Conrad gave the most modest of subtitles to The Secret Agent, his novel about London's late-Victorian anarchists. A Simple Tale of the Nineteenth Century, he called it. On the face of it, the story told in this book about an earlier, non-fictional group of t...
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Cambridge ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE THE SIMPLE TALE
- 1. The Cato Street Conspiracy: What Happened
- 2. Arrests and Reactions
- pt. TWO TAKING ITS MEASURE
- 3. Interpreting the Conspiracy
- 4. What They Were Up Against
- 5. What They Believed
- 6. Fantasy, Myth, and Song
- 7. Rebellion's Habitats
- pt. THREE THISTLEWOOD: HIS STORY
- 8. A Terrorist in the Making: 1774-1816
- 9. The Spa Fields Insurrection: 1816-17
- 10. Thistlewood Unhinged: 1818-19
- 11. Peterloo in London: 1819-20
- 12. Edwards the Spy: 1819-20
- pt. FOUR ORDINARY BRITONS
- 13. Conspirators and Others
- 14. Wives, Marriages, Children
- 15. Men of Colour: Wedderburn and Davidson
- pt. FIVE THE EXECUTIONS
- 16. Trials and Verdicts
- 17. May Day at Newgate
- 18. Epilogue: Gericault Goes to Cato Street
- The People Listed
- Historiographical Note
- Trial Reports.