Keith Crook taught for many years at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK, where he is now an Honorary Fellow, specializing in eighteenth-century literature. His main publications are on Samuel Johnson and Swift. He published the standard scholarly edition of Joseph Forsyth’s Italy in 2001.

The Imprisoned Traveler is a fascinating portrait of a unique book, its context, and its elusive author. Joseph Forsyth, a Napoleonic “detainee” of 1803, wrote his travel writing classic in a bid for release from prison. Keith Crook uncovers his protests against Napoleon’s tyranny, concealed beneath his discerning art criticism and vivid impressions of Italians.

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Preface
List of Abbreviations
 
Chapter 1             The historical moment of Forsyth's Italy                                       
Chapter 2             Forsyth's Prisons                                                                           
Chapter 3             The 1813 and the 1816 Versions of Forsyth's Italy                       
Chapter 4             Talking to Italians                                                                           
Chapter 5             The Hidden Thoughts of Joseph Forsyth                                       
Chapter 6             Visual arts, architecture, and literature                                            
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The Letters of the Forsyth Brothers                                                                            
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Appendix 1          Works of Art Forsyth Saw
Appendix 2          A Sequence for the Passages Omitted from the First Edition of Forsyth's Italy    
Acknowledgments                                                                                                      
Bibliography                                                                                                               
Index