Timothy Morton and Nigel Smith, eds. Radicalism in British Literary Culture, 1650–1830: From Revolution to Revolution. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. x, 284. $60.00. ISBN 0-521-64215-9.

Abstract

List of illustrations Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Timothy Morton and Nigel Smith Part I. From Revolution: 1. 'May the last king be strangled in the bowels of the last priest': irreligion and the English Enlightenment, 1649-1789 Justin Champion 2. Radicalism and replication Nigel Smith 3. The plantation of wrath Timothy Morton 4. They became what they beheld: theodicy and regeneration in Milton, Law and Blake Donald John 5. Fasting women: the significance of gender and bodies in radical religion and politics, 1650-1813 Jane Shaw Part II. To Revolution: 6. John Thelwall and the revolution of 1649 Michael Scrivener 7. Women's private reading and political action, 1649-1838 Charlotte Sussman 8. The strange career of Richard 'Citizen' Lee: poetry, popular radicalism, and enthusiasm in the 1790s Jon Mee 9. William Cobbett, John Clare, and the agrarian politics of the English revolution James McKusick 10. 'Not a reforming patriot but an ambitious tyrant': representations of Cromwell and the English republic in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Peter Kitson 11. The republican prompt: connections in English radical culture Paul Hamilton.