Radicalism in British literary culture, 1650-1830
Subtitle: from Revolution to Revolution
By: edited by Timothy Morton and Nigel Smith.
Contributors: Morton, Timothy, 1968-; Smith, Nigel, 1958-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.; Radicalism in literature.; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Revolutionary literature, English -- History and criticism.; Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History.; Radicalism -- Great Britain -- History.
Description: Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) 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. Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: English literature 18th century History and criticism, Radicalism in literature, English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism, English literature 19th century History and criticism, Revolutionary literature, English History and criticism, Politics and literature Great Britain History, Radicalism Great Britain History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-266) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PART I: FROM REVOLUTION; title: 'May the last king be strangled in the bowels; title: of the last priest': irreligion and the English; title: Enlightenment, 1649-I 789; title: Justin Champion; title: 2 Radicalism and replication; title: Nigel Smith; title: 3 The plantation of wrath; title: Timothy Morton; title: 4 They became what they beheldtheodicy and regeneration; title: in Milton, Law and Blake; title: Donald John; title: 5 Fasting women: the significance of gender and bodies; title: in radical religion and politics, 1650-I 8i 3; title: Jane Shaw; title: PART II: TO REVOLUTION; title: 6 John Thelwall and the Revolution of I 649; title: Michael Scrivener; title: 7 Women's private reading and political action, 1649-1 838; title: Charlotte Sussman; title: 8 The strange career of Richard 'Citizen' Lee: poetry,; title: popular radicalism and enthusiasm in the I790s; title: Jon Mee; title: 9 William Cobbett,John Clare and the agrarian politics; title: of the English Revolution; title: James C. McKusick; title: 10 'Not a reforming patriot but an ambitious tyrant':; title: representations of Cromwell and the English; title: Republic in the late eighteenth and early; title: nineteenth centuries; title: Peter Kitson; title: I Afterword: the republican prompt: connections; title: in English radical culture; title: Paul Hamilton; title: Notes; title: Index.