English radicalism, 1550-1850 / edited by Glenn Burgess and Matthew Festenstein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burgess, Glenn, 1961- editor.

Festenstein, Matthew, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Radicalism--England--History.

Radicalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 381 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An exploration of the place of radical ideas and activity in English political and social history over three centuries. Its core concern is whether a long-term history of radicalism can be written. Are the things that historians label 'radical' linked into a single complex radical tradition, or are they separate phenomena linked only by the minds and language of historians? Does the historiography of radicalism uncover a repressed dimension of English history, or is it a construct that serves the needs of the present more than the understanding of the past? The book contains a variety of answers to these questions. As well as an introduction and eleven substantive chapters, it also includes two 'afterwords' which reflect on the implications of the book as a whole for the study of radicalism. The distinguished list of contributors is drawn from a variety of disciplines, including history, political science, and literary studies.

Contents:

Introduction / Glenn Burgess

A politics of emergency in the reign of Elizabeth I / Stephen Alford

Richard Overton and radicalism : the new intertext of the civic ethos in mid-seventeenth century England / Luc Borot

Radicalism and the English Revolution / Glenn Burgess

'That kind of people' : late Stuart radicals and their manifestoes : a functional approach / Richard L. Greaves

The divine creature and the female citizen : manners, religion, and the two rights strategies in Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindications / Gregory Claeys

On not inventing the English Revolution : the radical failure of the 1790s as linguistic non-performance / Iain Hampsher-Monk

Disconcerting ideas : explaining popular radicalism and popular loyalism in the 1790s / Mark Philp

Henry Hunt's Peep into a prison : the radical discontinuities of imprisonment for debt / Margot C. Finn

Jeremy Bentham's radicalism / F. Rosen

Religion and the origins of radicalism in nineteenth-century Britain / J.C.D. Clark

Joseph Hume and the reformation of India, 1819-1833 / Miles Taylor

Radicalism revisited / Conal Condren

Reassessing radicalism in a traditional society : two questions / J.C. Davis.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-14372-1

1-281-04008-8

9786611040086

1-139-13026-9

0-511-33377-3

0-511-33443-5

0-511-49576-5

0-511-33309-9

0-511-33501-6

OCLC:

761647127