New Directions in Thomas Paine Studies (eBook)

S. Cleary, I. Stabell (Herausgeber)

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2016
253 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan US (Verlag)
978-1-137-58999-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This book propels the study of American revolutionary and radical Thomas Paine into the twenty-first century by engaging an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars in an exploration of Paine's role in politics, literature, and the invention of the global.

Marc Belissa, Universite de Paris Nanterre Ouest, France Gary Berton, Iona College, USA Claudia Carlos, Independent Scholar Peter Chapin, Iona College, USA Gregory Claeys, Royal Holloway, England Maurizio Griffo, University 'Federico II' of Naples, Italy Matthew Rainbow Hale, Goucher College, USA David Hoffman, Independent Scholar, USA Patrick Hughes, University of Pittsburgh, USA Raymond Irwin, Ohio State University, USA Lubomir Ivanov, Iona College, USA Carine Lounisi, Univeriste de Paris Diderot 7, France Kara Nowakowski, Iona College, USA Smiljana Petrovic, Iona College, USA Richard Robyn, Kent State University, USA Robert Schiaffino, Iona College, USA

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Named moral father of the Internet by Wired Magazine and quoted by President Barack Obama in his historic first inaugural address, Thomas Paine is an American revolutionary figure who continues to intrigue and infuriate. New Directions in Thomas Paine Studies offers an interdisciplinary perspective on Paine's distinctive influence on a number of eighteenth-century discourses, from politics and literature, to human rights and religion. This volume aims to expand the field of study on one of the most important figures not simply in the American, but the global revolutionary period of the late eighteenth-century. Drawing on an international group of scholars who hope to deconstruct the nationalistic boundaries that have hampered Paine studies for decades, the essays offer not only new interpretations of Paine's major works, but new methodologies that reflect the enduring presence of Paine in American cultural discourse.

Autor

Scott Cleary is Associate Professor of English at Iona College, USA. He has published on a wide variety of eighteenth-century authors, including Alexander Pope, Christopher Smart, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Paine. He is currently the Director of Iona College's Institute for Thomas Paine Studies. Ivy Linton Stabell is Assistant Professor of English at Iona College, USA. She has published essays on biographies written for children in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America.

Inhalt

1. The Historiographical and Cultural Impact of Thomas Paine: A Quantitative Approach; Raymond Irwin2. Examining the Thomas Paine Corpus: Automated Computer Authorship Attribution Methodology Applied to Thomas Paine's Writings; Gary Berton, Smiljana Petrovic, Lubomir Ivanov, and Robert Schiaffino3. 'A Kind of Bee-Hive': Thomas Paine and the Pennsylvania Magazine; Peter Chapin and Kara Nowakowski4. Apostles of Freedom: Pro-French American Democrats and Thomas Paine as Religious Crusaders; Matthew Rainbow Hale5. Paine's Rights Reconsidered; Gregory Claeys6. Irreligion Made Easy: The Reaction to Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason; Patrick Hughes7. Thomas Paine's Le Siècle de la Raison, ou Le Sens Commun Des Droits De L'Homme: Notes on a Curious Edition of The Age of Reason; David Hoffman and Claudia Carlos8. Thomas Paine's Lessons in Republicanism, (1802-1807); Marc Belissa9. Thomas Paine's Reflections on the Social Contract: a Consistent Theory?; Carine Lounissi10. The Aim and Meaning of Constitutions According to Thomas Paine; Maurizio Griffo11. Erasure of Public Memory: The Strange Case of Tom Paine in Washington, D.C.; Richard Robyn

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.4.2016
• Zusatzinfo: XI, 253 p.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: American Revolution • Britain • Crusades • freedom • History • Liberty • Memory • Methodology • Military • modern history • North America • Political Science • Politics • Revolution • World History
• ISBN-10: 1-137-58999-X / 113758999X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-137-58999-6 / 9781137589996