Imagining the King's Death; Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-1796
Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2000). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 755 pp. The examination by John Barrell, Professor of English, University of York, on the three years following the execution of Louis XVI and its consequences upon those in Britain. Barrell "shows how the law of treason was..... More