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Socialism, Radicalism, and Nostalgia - Social Criticism in Britain, 1775-1830 (Paperback)
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Socialism, Radicalism, and Nostalgia - Social Criticism in Britain, 1775-1830 (Paperback)
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The years of the first industrial revolution saw a remarkable
flowering of radical social criticism in Britain. This is a study
of the ideas that emerged then and of the social and intellectual
conditions from which they developed. Dr Stafford begins in Part I
by presenting what will be seen as a very valuable general account
of the historical and cultural setting, showing how the language of
social debate had been affected by intellectual developments and
the increasingly rapid transformations of society. Then in Part II
he discusses ten major critics of British society, from Thomas
Spence to William Cobbett, who represent a wide range of political
opinion from anarchism to Tory radicalism. Dr. Stafford takes a key
text by each author, sets out its argument, and analyzes it both
critically and historically, showing the particular influences that
shaped it and revealing the ways in which the social thought of the
time resembles or diverges from our own. This book will help to
recover from unwarranted neglect this important tradition of
writing that did much to form subsequent thinking about society. It
will make a valuable contribution to the study of the literature
and the social and intellectual history of the period.
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