Republicanism and Bourgeois Radicalism : Political Ideology in Late Eighteenth-Century England and America / Isaac Kramnick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kramnick, Isaac, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 304 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

With this book Isaac Kramnick adds a strong voice to the lively debate about the nature of political ideology in eighteenth-century England and America. Whereas the now-dominant "republican thesis" sees liberal ideology as virtually irrelevant in an age of civic commitment to a moral public order, Kramnick makes a strong case for a thriving liberalism in the Anglo-American world at the time of the American and French revolutions. In his view, both ideologies flourished during this period, and it is unwise to see one as the exclusive paradigm in which eighteenth-century political discourse took place. In short, he proposes to the republican school a scholarly truce.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

1. Liberalism, the Middle Class, and Republican Revisionism

PART ONE. BOURGEOIS RADICALISM AND ENGLISH DISSENT

2. Religion and Radicalism: The Political Theory of Dissent

3. Joseph Priestley's Scientific Liberalism

4. Children's Literature and Bourgeois Ideology

5. Tom Paine: Radical Liberal

PART TWO. REPUBLICAN REVISIONISM AND ANGLO-AMERICAN IDEOLOGY

6. Republican Revisionism Revisited

7. James Burgh and "Opposition" Ideology in England and America

8. "The Great National Discussion": The Discourse of Politics in 1787

9. "Then All the World Would Be Upside Down"

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

1-5017-4598-0

OCLC:

1125110260