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Varieties of Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century English Radicalism in Context (Hardcover, New edition)
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Varieties of Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century English Radicalism in Context (Hardcover, New edition)
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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.
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