A Radical Reader: The Struggle for Change in England 1381-1914 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0851247253 ISBN 13: 9780851247250

Publisher: Spokesman Books, 2006

Synopsis

This major anthology spans 500 years of radical protest from the Peasants Revolt to the First World War. Provides an alternative political and social history of England. This is history as creative defiance, as communal action, involving the intellectual and imaginative witnesses of those among the privileged poets, writers, and thinkers who have had the strength and courage to make themselves passionate spokesmen for the dispossessed.

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Synopsis:

This major anthology spans 500 years of radical protest from the Peasants' Revolt to the First World War. This book provides an alternative political and social history of England. This is history as creative defiance, as communal action, involving the intellectual and imaginative witnesses of those among the privileged - poets, writers, and thinkers - who have had the strength and courage to make themselves passionate spokesmen for the dispossessed. Here are passages from More's "Utopia", Hobbes' "Leviathan", Bunyans' "Pilgrim's Progress", Mary Wolstonecraft's "Vindication of the Rights of Women". Here, too, are extracts from Wyclif, Shakespeare, Bacon, Milton, Winstanley, Marvell, Swift, Blake, Wordsworth, Cobbett, Byron, Shelley, Dickens and Marx - plus a wealth of hitherto inaccessible documents. 'There is something for everybody in Mr Hampton's 600 pages ...A most useful, thought-provoking collection.' - Christopher Hill, "The Guardian".

About this edition

• Publisher: Spokesman Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0851247253
• ISBN 13: 9780851247250
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 624
• Editor: Hampton Christopher