The Political Writings of the 1790s: Loyalism : responses to Paine, 1791-1792
Author: Gregory Claeys
Publisher: Pickering & Chatto Limited
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 413
ISBN-13: 9781851963256
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Gregory Claeys
Publisher: Pickering & Chatto Limited
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 413
ISBN-13: 9781851963256
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Gregory Claeys
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 3536
ISBN-13: 9781851963201
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Largely instigated by Edmund Burke's "Reflections on the Revolution in France" (1790), the French Revolution provoked a fierce political debate in Britain. Equally divided between reform and loyalist literature, this collection reprints over 100 contributions to the debate.
Author: A. McCann
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1998-12-13
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 0230376975
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Cultural Politics in the 1790s examines the relationship between sentimental literature, political activism and the public sphere at the end of the eighteenth century. Drawing on critical theorists such as Habermas, Negt and Kluge, Marcuse and Foucault, it attempts to demonstrate how major literary and political figures of the 1790s can be read in terms of the broader dynamics of modernity. Reading a diverse range of political and literary material from the period, it examines how relationships between the aesthetic and the political, the private and the public, mark the emergence and consolidation of bourgeois behavioural norms and the simultaneous marginalization of potentially more radical forms of political and cultural production.
Author: Seth Cotlar
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2011-03-29
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 0813931061
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Tom Paine’s America explores the vibrant, transatlantic traffic in people, ideas, and texts that profoundly shaped American political debate in the 1790s. In 1789, when the Federal Constitution was ratified, "democracy" was a controversial term that very few Americans used to describe their new political system. That changed when the French Revolution—and the wave of democratic radicalism that it touched off around the Atlantic World—inspired a growing number of Americans to imagine and advocate for a wide range of political and social reforms that they proudly called "democratic." One of the figureheads of this new international movement was Tom Paine, the author of Common Sense. Although Paine spent the 1790s in Europe, his increasingly radical political writings from that decade were wildly popular in America. A cohort of democratic printers, newspaper editors, and booksellers stoked the fires of American politics by importing a flood of information and ideas from revolutionary Europe. Inspired by what they were learning from their contemporaries around the world, the evolving democratic opposition in America pushed their fellow citizens to consider a wide range of radical ideas regarding racial equality, economic justice, cosmopolitan conceptions of citizenship, and the construction of more literally democratic polities. In Europe such ideas quickly fell victim to a counter-Revolutionary backlash that defined Painite democracy as dangerous Jacobinism, and the story was much the same in America’s late 1790s. The Democratic Party that won the national election of 1800 was, ironically, the beneficiary of this backlash; for they were able to position themselves as the advocates of a more moderate, safe vision of democracy that differentiated itself from the supposedly aristocratic Federalists to their right and the dangerously democratic Painite Jacobins to their left.
Author: Iain Hampsher-Monk
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-08-11
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780521570053
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The French Revolution embodied, in the eyes of subsequent generations, the emergence of the modern political world. It offered a new understanding of class politics, secular ideology and revolutionary transformation which inspired, argues Iain Hampsher-Monk, the whole world-wide communist experiment of the twentieth Century. In this authoritative anthology of key political texts exploring the impact of this period on (primarily) the British experience, Hampsher-Monk examines the variety, influence and profundity of major thinkers such as Burke, Wollstonecraft, Paine and Godwin, along with the impact of other less celebrated writers.
Author: Gregory Claeys
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781851963201
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Pamela Clemit
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-02-10
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 0521516072
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first major collection of essays to provide a comprehensive examination of the British literature of the French Revolution.
Author: Marion Löffler
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 2014-10-01
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13: 1783161027
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is essential reading for anybody who wishes to be fully informed of the British Revolution debate and/or teach the history of the French Revolution and the Enlightenment in Great Britain. All Welsh texts are translated, which makes them accessible to an English-speaking audience for the first time. Four illustrations, among them the first political cartoon in the Welsh language, add valuable visual material and information.
Author: Paul Keen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-11-28
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 1139426486
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book offers an original study of the debates which arose in the 1790s about the nature and social role of literature. Paul Keen shows how these debates were situated at the intersection of the French Revolution and a more gradual revolution in information and literacy reflecting the aspirations of the professional classes in eighteenth-century England. He shows these movements converging in hostility to a new class of readers, whom critics saw as dangerously subject to the effects of seditious writings or the vagaries of literary fashion. The first part of the book concentrates on the dominant arguments about the role of literature and the status of the author; the second shifts its focus to the debates about working-class activists, radical women authors, and the Orientalists, and examines the growth of a Romantic ideology within this context of political and cultural turmoil.