Thomas Paine

Contents: Series preface; Introduction. Part I Survey of the Literature: Thomas Paine: a survey of research and criticism since 1945, A. Owen Aldridge; The lifelong education of Thomas Paine (1737-1809): some reflections upon his acquaintance among books, Caroline Robbins. Part II Tom Paine and the History of Political Ideas: The moral economics of Tom Paine, William Christian; Thomas Paine: 'prepare in time an asylum for mankind', Bernard Bailyn; A note on Common Sense and Christian Eschatology, Stephen Newman; Nature and revolution in Paine's Common Sense, Jack Fruchtman; From liberalism to radicalism: Tom Paine's Rights of Man, Gary Kates; Paine and Burke: God, nature and politics, Ian Harris; Thomas Paine: ransom, civil peace, and the natural right to welfare, John W. Seaman; Paine's Agrarian Justice and the secularisation of natural jurisprudence, Gregory Claeys. Paine and Republican Ideology: Thomas Paine's apostles: radical emigr and the triumph of Jeffersonian republicanism, Michael Durey; Radical Lockeanism in American political culture, Richard J. Ellis; English republicanism in the 1790s, Mark Philp. Paine and the Social History of Ideas: Ideology and the origins of liberal America, Gordon S. Wood; The American Revolution and the transformation of English republicanism, Arthur Sheps; Religion and radicalism: English political theory in the age of revolution, Isaac Kramnick; Paine, America and the 'modernization' of political consciousness, Jack P. Greene. Literary Analyses of Paine's Writings: The commonalties of Common Sense, Robert A. Ferguson; Style and identification in Common Sense, Elaine K. Ginsberg; Familial politics: Thomas Paine and the killing of the King, 1776, Winthrop D. Jordan; Tom Paine and American loneliness, Martin Roth; Parasiting America: the radical function of heterogeneity in Thomas Paine's early writings, Molly Anne Rothenberg. Paine in Radical History: Radicals and the making of American democracy: toward a new narrative of