Thomas Paine collected writings / general editor Gregory Claeys ; editors Marc Belissa [and four others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809, author.

Contributor:

Claeys, Gregory, editor.

Belissa, Marc, editor.

Bosc, Yannick, editor.

Berton, Gary, editor.

Lounissi, Carine, editor.

Cleary, Scott, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science.

Founding Fathers of the United States--Writing.

Founding Fathers of the United States.

United States--History.

United States.

Physical Description:

volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Collected writings

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2026]

Summary:

"Thomas Paine: Collected Writings is the first major new edition of Paine's works, bringing together all his writings in six breathtaking volumes that dramatically revise our previous understanding of his activities as a writer and his importance as a democratic theorist in the age of revolutions. It includes about 180 new letters and some two hundred works newly attributed to Paine, with twenty-nine works previously regarded as Paine's being deattributed. Drawing on pioneering computerized text analysis that makes possible for the first time attributions of anonymous and pseudonymous texts, this collection includes in volumes 5-6 newly identified pamphlets and newspaper and journal contributions, and suggests that Paine was extremely active as a Grub Street oppositional Whig writer in the decade prior to the American Revolution. Many writings from the period of his residence in France (1792-1802) and his subsequent return to the United States are also restored to his published output. Paine emerges as a much more consistent and serious democratic theorist than is often assumed, whose contributions to revolutionary debates in America, Britain, and France were unparalleled in their time." - publisher

Contents:

Volume I: 1772 to 1782

Volume II: 1782 to 1793

Volume III: 1793 to 1809

Volume IV: 1765-1808

Volume V: 1758-1772

Volume VI: 1772-1808

Local Notes:

HSP holds: v.1-6

OCLC:

1599578789