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Gilbert Imlay (February 9, 1754 – November 20, 1828) was an American businessman, author, and diplomat. He served in the U.S. embassy to France and became one of the earliest American writers, producing two books, the influential A Topographical Description of the Western Territory of North America, and a novel, The Emigrants, both of which ...
Imlay, an army officer during the American War for Independence, settled for a time in Kentucky, writing from his experiences on the then-frontier a valuable Topographical Description of the Western Territory of North America, published in London in 1792.
Gilbert Imlay’s The Emigrants—published in 1793, four years after the ratification of the US constitution—illustrates that there indeed is a peril inherent in the discursive link between utopia and the United States, already detectable while the nation was still in the process of formation.
- Verena Adamik
- 2020
Wil Verhoeven's comprehensive new biography seeks to expand our knowledge of Gilbert Imlay, best known as the faithless lover of Mary Wollstonecraft and father of their daughter Fanny.
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James Wollstonecraft called Imlay ‘a fine, handsome fellow’, and Mary wrote him into one of her novels as an engaging though not very intelligent lover, who seduces a married woman and then so neglects her that she is driven to attempt suicide.
- Stuart Andrews
- 1998
Dec 2, 2020 · Such investigation tends to confirm the idea that it was the American Gilbert Imlay who died at St. Brelade.
Dec 2, 2020 · Abstract. Looking at Gilbert Imlay’s frontier romance The Emigrants (1793), this chapter draws two insights regarding the link between United States and utopia. First, in accordance with colonial and revolutionary imageries, the novel maintains that utopia is supposed to be established, or is certain to be established, somewhere in America.
