Front matter

Chapters in this book

1. Front matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of contributors vii
4. Introduction 1
5. PART I Radical language and themes
6. 1 Community of goods 41
7. 2 Thomas Paine’s democratic linguistic radicalism 60
8. 3 English radicalism in the 1650s 80
9. PART II Radical exchanges and networks
10. 4 Secular millenarianism as a radical utopian project in Shaftesbury 103
11. 5 The diffusion and impact of Baron d’Holbach’s texts in Great Britain, 1765–1800 125
12. PART III Radical media and practices
13. 6 The parliamentary context of political radicalism in the English revolution 151
14. 7 Toasting and the diffusion of radical ideas, 1780–1832 170
15. PART IV Radical fiction and representation
16. 8 Contesting the press-oppressors of the age 193
17. 9 Ways of thinking, ways of writing 211
18. 10 ‘The insane enthusiasm of the time’ 229
19. Select bibliography 251
20. Index 270