num_pages: 320
description: Drawing on the lives and works of a unique collection of philosophers and writers-including Wordsworth, Blake, Godwin, Wollstonecraft, Carlyle, and others-Geoffrey Ashe shows how English radical thought sowed the seeds for future reform, in opposition to the bloody disappointment of the French Revolution. An authoritative exploration of one of the most intriguing periods of British historical thought. Geoffrey Ashe is a writer and lecturer specializing in early British history.
language: English
title: The Offbeat Radicals: The British Tradition of Alternative Dissent
titlecomplete: The Offbeat Radicals: The British Tradition of Alternative Dissent
genres: History
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd