REFORMING IDEAS IN BRITAIN:Politics and Language in the Shadow of the French Revolution, 1789–1815Mark Philp

Reforming Ideas in Britain brings together a series of essays to provide a vibrant historiography of Britain's political thought and movements during the 1790s and beyond. Challenging traditional perceptions of the period, Philp prompts us to reconsider the weight of various ideas, interpretations and explanations of British politics and language; showing us instead that this dynamic world of popular politics was at once more chaotic, innovative and open-minded than historians have typically perceived it to be. This is an essential interdisciplinary text for scholars of history, political theory and romanticism that offers a fresh perspective on radicalism, loyalism and republicanism in Britain during the French Revolution.

• Challenges traditional perceptions of radicalism and loyalism in Britain during the French Revolution

• Re-evaluates the weight of ideas, interpretations and explanations of British politics, writing and language during the vibrant period of the 1790s and beyond

• Offers interdisciplinary coverage of key political and literary figures, tracing the intellectual currents and movements that prompted their rise to significance

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Published 28 November 2013

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PRAISE FOR PHILPReforming Ideas in Britain: Politics and Language in the Shadow of the French Revolution, 1789–1815

"Reforming Ideas in Britain will transform the way in which political debate has conventionally been studied and interpreted during the years of the French Revolution and its aftermath…This is not simply a new and exciting way of understanding the debates around the French Revolution; it is an approach to the understanding of the history of ideas which ought to be employed in the study of other periods of political contestation." - Gareth Stedman Jones, Director, Centre for History and Economics, King's College, Cambridge

"Philp asks questions about the thinkers and the issues he discusses with a wonderfully developed sense of the interaction of ideas, institutions, cultural practices and events. He is at once a historian, a political theorist, and a literary critic, and I can’t think of anyone who exemplifies better the benefits of working across the boundaries of disciplines." - John Barrell, Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York

"The war of political ideas that erupted in Britain during the French Revolution was fierce and consequential, laying out the battle-lines for the democratic reform struggles of the nineteenth century. No-one writes better about this controversy than Mark Philp…Philp is invariably insightful, wise, compelling. Anyone interested in this turbulent phase of British history will want to read and learn from this book." - Barbara Taylor,

Queen Mary University of London

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Published 28 November 2013

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Contains 480 pages; 2 b/w illustrations