This edited collection addresses the issue of radicalism by focusing on the media that contributed to its diffusion in the early modern era, using innovative interdisciplinary research that draws on a wide range of primary material.

Laurent Curelly is Senior Lecturer in British Studies at Université de Haute Alsace, Mulhouse
Nigel Smith is William and Annie S. Paton Foundation Professor of Ancient and Modern Literature at Princeton University

Introduction - Laurent Curelly and Nigel Smith
Part I: Radical language and themes
1. Community of goods: an unacceptable radical theme at the time of the English revolution - Jean-Pierre Cavaillé
2. Thomas Paine's democratic linguistic radicalism: a political philosophy of language? - Carine Lounissi
3. English radicalism in the 1650s: the Quaker search for the true knowledge - Catie Gill
Part II: Radical exchanges and networks
4. Secular millenarianism as a radical utopian project in Shaftesbury - Patrick Müller
5. The diffusion and impact of Baron d'Holbach's texts in Great Britain, 1765-1800 - Nick Treuherz
Part III: Radical media and practices
6. The parliamentary context of political radicalism in the English revolution - Jason Peacey
7. Toasting and the diffusion of radical ideas, 1780-1832 - Rémy Duthille
Part IV: Radical fiction and representation
8. Contesting the press-oppressors of the age: the captivity narrative of William Okeley (1675) - Catherine Vigier
9. Ways of thinking, ways of writing: novelistic expression of radicalism in the works of Godwin, Holcroft and Bage - Marion Leclair
10. 'The insane enthusiasm of the time': remembering the regicides in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain and North America - Edward Vallance
Index