Paine and Cobbett: The Transatlantic Connectionvolume 12

by David A. Wilson

Wilson traces four major themes in the thought of Paine and Cobbett: the relationship between British radical ideas and American revolutionary ideology; the eighteenth-century revolution in rhetorical theory; the effect of the American and French Revolutions on British popular radicalism; and the American attempt to turn the United States into a new empire of liberty. He challenges the view that Paine created a new literary style for a new audience...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773510133
• ISBN13: 9780773510135
• Release Date: March 1988
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.