Radicalism in British Literary Culture, 1650–1830

From Revolution to Revolution

Nigel Smith editor Timothy Morton editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:1st Oct '09

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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: 9780521120876

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm

Weight: 440g

296 pages