{"product_id":"hermsprong-or-man-as-he-is-not","title":"Hermsprong; or, Man As He Is Not","description":"\u003cp\u003e📖 \u003cstrong\u003eInstant digital download — EPUB format\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Bage was a Staffordshire paper manufacturer who took up novel-writing in his forties, almost as a hobby, and ended up writing one of the sharpest satirical novels of the 1790s. \u003cem\u003eHermsprong; or, Man As He Is Not\u003c\/em\u003e (1796) follows a young man raised among the Native peoples of North America who returns to rural England and finds its customs — arranged marriage, inherited rank, clerical authority, the unquestioned power of fathers over daughters — almost as strange as the English find him. Contemporaries read it as a \"Jacobin novel,\" written in the same radical, post-Revolutionary current as William Godwin's \u003cem\u003eCaleb Williams\u003c\/em\u003e and Mary Wollstonecraft's \u003cem\u003eMaria\u003c\/em\u003e. It is funny, pointed, and unlike almost anything else being published in England the same decade Jane Austen was drafting her first novels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHermsprong\u003c\/em\u003e was a real success on publication — William Hazlitt later praised it, and it is said to have been admired by Maria Edgeworth — but it fell out of print for most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and remains almost completely unknown today. This appears to be its first freely available digital edition: transcribed in full from the original 1796 Minerva Press printing, all three volumes, seventy-seven chapters, unabridged.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor \u0026amp; Genre\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobert Bage\u003c\/strong\u003e (1730–1801) was an English novelist and papermaker, part of the same radical literary circle as William Godwin and Thomas Holcroft. Genre: satirical Jacobin novel, 1796 original text.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\"My friend, it is to little purpose who I am. I ask of you only to attend to the reasonableness of what I say. Truth is worth our regard, by whomsoever it is spoke.\" — Hermsprong, addressing an angry crowd\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Robert Bage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50592666616056,"sku":"EN-BAGE-HERMSPRONG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0802\/4798\/0280\/files\/EN-BAGE-HERMSPRONG.jpg?v=1790046606","url":"https:\/\/nilebookstore.com\/ar\/products\/hermsprong-or-man-as-he-is-not","provider":"Nile Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}