This book takes a fresh look at the progressive interventions of writers in the nineteenth century. From Cobbett to Dickens and George Eliot, and including a ho

This text reveals the importance of radicalism's links to pre-industrial culture and attachments to place and local communities, as well the ways in which journ

A dynamic, timely history of nineteenth-century activists—free-lovers and socialists, abolitionists and vigilantes—and the social revolution they sparked in

“The American people sees itself advance across the wilderness, draining swamps, straightening rivers, peopling the solitude, and subduing nature,” wrote Al

Sally Ledger offers substantial readings of the influences of radical writers on works from Pickwick to Little Dorrit.