John Thelwall [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]
… Debate at Coachmaker’s Hall. He credited the attempts to close down debating societies as his primary motivation for switching political allegiances and embracing the reform movement, suggesting the importance of physical gathering to his … attraction, ‘like the correspondent particles of matter, [that] have a tendency to adhere whenever they are brought within the sphere of mutual attraction’. 4 This commitment to the social and political potential of materialism saw him … he published his genre-bending The Peripatetic , a compendium of verse and prose that united sentimental fiction, with gothic elements, underpinned by his idiosyncratic materialism. 3 . Thelwall’s interest in materialism has been most …
Debate | Eloquence | French Revolution | Poetry | Public sphere
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