Radicalism in British Literary Culture, 1650–1830
From Revolution to Revolution
Nigel Smith editor Timothy Morton editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:3rd Jan '02
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This book examines radical tradition in British literary culture from the English Revolution to the French Revolution.
An examination of the radical tradition in British literary culture from the English Revolution to the French Revolution, and charts continuities between the two periods.In this volume of interdisciplinary essays, leading scholars examine the radical tradition in British literary culture from the English Revolution to the French Revolution. They chart continuities between the two periods and examine the recuperation of ideas and texts from the earlier period in the 1790s and beyond. Contributors utilize a variety of approaches and concepts: from gender studies, the cultural history of food and diet and the history of political discourse, to explorations of the theatre, philosophy and metaphysics. This volume argues that the radical agendas of the mid-seventeenth century, intended to change society fundamentally, did not disappear throughout the long eighteenth century only to be resuscitated at its close. Rather, through close textual analysis, these essays indicate a more continuous transmission.
"This collection of essays is uniformly lucid, engaging, and densely documented ... it offers a rich tapestry representing strains of radical thought." Seventeenth-Century News
ISBN: 9780521642156
Dimensions: 237mm x 160mm x 20mm
Weight: 610g
296 pages