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Varieties of Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century English Radicalism in Context

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Varieties of Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century English Radicalism in Context

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Varieties of Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century English Radicalism in Context book

Edited ByAriel Hessayon, David Finnegan
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2011
eBook Published 17 June 2019
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315548395
Pages 286
eBook ISBN 9781315548395
Subjects Communication Studies, Humanities, Politics & International Relations
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Hessayon, A., & Finnegan, D. (Eds.). (2011). Varieties of Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century English Radicalism in Context (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315548395

ABSTRACT

The essays in this collection explore a number of significant questions regarding the terms 'radical' and 'radicalism' in early modern English contexts. They investigate whether we can speak of a radical tradition, and whether radicalism was a local, national or transnational phenomenon. In so doing this volume examines the exchange of ideas and texts in the history of supposedly radical events, ideologies and movements (or moments). Once at the cutting edge of academic debate radicalism had, until very recently, fallen prey to historiographical trends as scholars increasingly turned their attention to more mainstream experiences or reactionary forces. While acknowledging the importance of those perspectives, Varieties of seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century English radicalism in context offers a reconsideration of the place of radicalism within the early modern period. It sets out to examine the subject in original and exciting ways by adopting distinctively new and broader perspectives. Among the crucial issues addressed are problems of definition and how meanings can evolve; context; print culture; language and interpretative techniques; literary forms and rhetorical strategies that conveyed, or deliberately disguised, subversive meanings; and the existence of a single, continuous English radical tradition. Taken together the essays in this collection offer a timely reassessment of the subject, reflecting the latest research on the theme of seventeenth-century English radicalism as well as offering some indications of the phenomenon's transnational contexts. Indeed, there is a sense here of the complexity and variety of the subject although much work still remains to be done on radicals and radicalism - both in early modern England and especially beyond.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |29 pages

Introduction

ByAriel Hessayon, David Finnegan

chapter 1|19 pages

The Beauty of Holiness and the Poetics of Antinomianism: Richard Crashaw, John Saltmarsh and the Language of Religious Radicalism in the 1640s*

ByNicholas McDowell

chapter 2|18 pages

Radicalism Relocated: Royalist Politics and Pamphleteering of the Late 1640s

ByJason Peacey

chapter 3|18 pages

News from the New Jerusalem: Giles Calvert and the Radical Experience*

ByMario Caricchio

chapter 4|26 pages

Gerrard Winstanley, Radical Reformer*

ByAriel Hessayon

chapter 5|15 pages

The Poetics of Biblical Prophecy: Abiezer Coppe’s Late Converted Midrash

ByNoam Flinker

chapter 6|16 pages

Empire-Building: The English Republic, Scotland and Ireland

ByJim Smyth

chapter 7|15 pages

Seventeenth-Century Italy and English Radical Movements

ByStefano Villani

chapter 8|22 pages

A Radical Review of the Cambridge Platonists

BySarah Hutton

chapter 9|22 pages

Radical Revelation? Apocalyptic Ideas in Late Seventeenth-Century England*

ByWarren Johnston

chapter 10|15 pages

Mapping Friendship and Dissent: The Letters from Joseph Boyse to Ralph Thoresby, 1680–1710*

BySandra Hynes

chapter 11|20 pages

The Books and Times of Anthony Collins (1676–1729), Free-thinker, Radical Reader and Independent Whig

ByGiovanni Tarantino

chapter 12|20 pages

William Hone (1780–1842), Print-Culture, and the Nature of Radicalism

ByJason McElligott
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