Cobbett was one of the greatest journalists of his day. Following a career in the British army he began writing as the loyalist 'Peter Porcupine' in the United States, defending all things British against the French Revolution and its supporters. This is the first collection on Cobbett and contains essays by scholars from a variety of disciplines.

James Grande, John Stevenson

Preface and Acknowledgements, James Grande, John Stevenson; Introduction - William Cobbett: Calf of John Bull, or Child of the Enlightenment?, James Grande, John Stevenson; Chapter 1 'Are we in England? or are we in Hell...?': Cobbett and Utopia, Gregory Claeys; Chapter 2 William Cobbett: Dimensions of Patriotism, John Stevenson; Chapter 3 A 'Birth of Intellect': William Cobbett and Jonathan Swift, James Grande; Chapter 4 Cobbett's Return to England in 1819, John Gardner; Chapter 5 Radicalism on the Cross Roads: William Hazlitt and William Cobbett, Ruth Livesey; Chapter 6 Scotland Under the Scotch System: Narratives of Resistance from Cobbett's Tour in Scotland, Alex Benchimol; Chapter 7 'The Feast of the Gridiron is at Hand': Chartism, Cobbett and Currency, Matthew Roberts; Chapter 8 Cobbett, his Children and Chartism, Malcolm Chase; Chapter 9 Rural Riding: Revisiting Cobbett's Countryside in the Twentieth Century, Clare Griffiths; Chapter 10 Beyond Left and Right: A Cobbett for our Times, Craig Calhoun;