Title: Radicalism in British literary culture, 1650-1830
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.
Subjects: English literature, Politics and literature, Radicalism, Radicalism in literature, History and criticism, English Revolutionary literature, History, English literature, history and criticism, 18th century, English literature, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700, English literature, history and criticism, 19th century, Revolutionary literature, history and criticism
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: Early modern, 1500-1700, 19th century, 18th century