Synopses & Reviews
This study examines the radical tradition in British literary culture from the English Revolution to the French Revolution. It charts continuities between the two periods and examines the recuperation of ideas and texts from the earlier period in the 1790s and beyond. The 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.
Review
"This collection of essays is uniformly lucid, engaging, and densely documented ... it offers a rich tapestry representing strains of radical thought." Seventeenth-Century News
Synopsis
Examines radical tradition in British literary culture from the English Revolution to the French Revolution.
Synopsis
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.
About the Author
Timothy Morton is Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado in Boulder. He is the Author of Shelley and the Revolution in Taste (Cambridge, 1995), and The Poetics of Spice (Cambridge, 2000).Nigel Smith is Professor of English at Princeton University. He is the author of Perfection Proclaimed (1989) and Literature and the English Revolution (1994).