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Title Radical voices, radical ways : articulating and disseminating radicalism in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain / edited by Laurent Curelly, Nigel Smith
Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies
Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies.
Contents Introduction -- Laurent Curelly and Nigel Smith Part I: Radical language and themes 1. The community of good motif: an unacceptable radical theme at the time of the English revolution -- Jean-Pierre Cavaillé 2. Thomas Paine's democratic linguistic radicalism: a political philosophy of language? -- Carine Lounissi 3. English radicalism in the 1650s: the Quaker search for the true knowledge -- Catherine Gill Part II: Radical exchanges and networks 4. Secular millenarianism as a radical utopian project in Shaftesbury -- Patrick Müller 5. The diffusion and impact of Baron d'Holbach's texts in Great Britain, 1765-1800 -- Nicholas Treuherz Part III: Radical media and practices 6. The parliamentary context of political radicalism in the English revolution -- Jason Peacey 7. Toasting and the diffusion of radical ideas, 1780-1832 -- Rémy Duthille Part IV: Radical fiction and representation 8. Contesting the press-oppressors of the age: the captivity narrative of William Okeley (1675) -- Catherine Vigier 9. Ways of thinking, ways of writing: novelistic expression of radicalism in the works of Godwin, Holcroft and Bage -- Marion Leclair 10. 'The insane enthusiasm of the time': remembering the regicides in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain and North America -- Edward Vallance Index
Summary This edited collection addresses the issue of radicalism by focusing on the media that contributed to its diffusion in the early modern era, using innovative interdisciplinary research that draws on a wide range of primary material
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Radicalism -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
Radicalism -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Radicalism and the press -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
Radicalism and the press -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Radicalism in literature.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
HISTORY -- Modern -- 17th Century.
Radicalism
Radicalism and the press
Radicalism in literature
Radikalismus
Great Britain
Großbritannien
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Curelly, Laurent, editor
Smith, Nigel, 1958- editor.
ISBN 9781526106216
1526106213
9781526106209
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1526120798
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