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This article examines the works of Irish revolutionary Theobald Wolfe Tone and American novelist Charles Brockden Brown during the 1790s to discover if the French Revolution dissipated enthusiasm of writers for utopian ideals, while at the same that others were cultivating hopes for such utopias located in distant and exotic places. The author also discusses the placement of republican utopias in the newly established United States, and issues of colonization as part of establishing utopias.

Sir William Jones. By MICHAEL J. FRANKLIN. (Writers of Wales) Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 1995. 137 pp. 4.95 £. Michael J. Franklin is to be congratulated on producing a [...]

Sir William Jones: Selected Poetical and Prose Works. Ed. by MICHAEL J. FRANKLIN. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 1995. xxx + 415 pp. 45 £. Michael J. Franklin is to [...]

Sir,--Kathryn Sutherland has written an informative and positive review of my edition of Robert Burns's Commonplace Books, Tour Journals and Miscellaneous Prose (January 23). She appreciates the rationale for 'documentary [...]