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The Transatlantic Republican
Thomas Paine and the Age of Revolutions
Series: - Amsterdam Monographs in American Studies, Volume: 12
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This collection of essays by Bernard Vincent covers most aspects of Thomas Paineâs life, thought, and works. It highlights Paineâs contribution to the American and French Revolutions, as well as the active role he played in the intellectual debates of the Age of Enlightenment, in particular through his heated arguments with Edmund Burke or the Abbé Raynal. More than two centuries later, those debatesâon the âuniversalâ nature of human rights or the âexceptionalismâ of the American experienceâseem today to be more relevant than ever.
Not only have Common Sense, Rights of Man and The Age of Reason become classics of Anglo-American literature, but, from the moment they appeared, they ushered in a new type of writer, a new way of writingâand a new class of readers. How Paine stormed the âBastille of Words,â and in so doing served both the ârepublicâ of letters and the cause of democracy, is the real subject of this book.
Not only have Common Sense, Rights of Man and The Age of Reason become classics of Anglo-American literature, but, from the moment they appeared, they ushered in a new type of writer, a new way of writingâand a new class of readers. How Paine stormed the âBastille of Words,â and in so doing served both the ârepublicâ of letters and the cause of democracy, is the real subject of this book.
"â¦an indispensable tool to study the American Revolution and its impact on Europe, or simply Thomas Paine as a writer or an American character [â¦] The book is written in a simple, efficient manner and undoubtedly reaches its goal." - in: Transatlantica, Vol. 2006-1
"â¦lucid essaysâ¦" - in: The European Legacy, Vol. 11, No. 7 (2006)
"This book was both stimulating and a pleasure to read for the author writes extremely well, almost Painite in styleâ¦" â R.W. Morrell, in: Journal of Radical History, Vol. 7, No. 4 (Spring 2005), pp. 16-18
"â¦lucid essaysâ¦" - in: The European Legacy, Vol. 11, No. 7 (2006)
"This book was both stimulating and a pleasure to read for the author writes extremely well, almost Painite in styleâ¦" â R.W. Morrell, in: Journal of Radical History, Vol. 7, No. 4 (Spring 2005), pp. 16-18
Introduction Storming the âBastille of Wordsâ: Tom Paineâs Revolution in Writing
Part I. Paine, America and France
I The Strategy of Time in Common Sense
II Thomas Paine, the Masonic Order, and the American Revolution
III From Fact to Myth: The Americans in Paris during the French Revolution
IV Paineâs âShareâ in the French Revolution
V Thomas Paine, the Louisiana Purchase, and the Rights of Man
VI A National of Nowhere: The Problem of Thomas Paineâs American Citizenship
Part II. Paine and the Enlightenment
VII Thomas Paine and the Issue of Universal Suffrage
VIII Paineâs Agrarian Justice and the Birth of the Welfare State
IX A Quaker with a Difference: Tom Paineâs Republican Rhetoric of War and Peace
X From the Rights of Man to the Rights of God: Thomas Paineâs Ultimate Challenge
XI A Pioneer with a Difference: Thomas Paine and Early âAmerican Studiesâ
Bibliography
Index
Part I. Paine, America and France
I The Strategy of Time in Common Sense
II Thomas Paine, the Masonic Order, and the American Revolution
III From Fact to Myth: The Americans in Paris during the French Revolution
IV Paineâs âShareâ in the French Revolution
V Thomas Paine, the Louisiana Purchase, and the Rights of Man
VI A National of Nowhere: The Problem of Thomas Paineâs American Citizenship
Part II. Paine and the Enlightenment
VII Thomas Paine and the Issue of Universal Suffrage
VIII Paineâs Agrarian Justice and the Birth of the Welfare State
IX A Quaker with a Difference: Tom Paineâs Republican Rhetoric of War and Peace
X From the Rights of Man to the Rights of God: Thomas Paineâs Ultimate Challenge
XI A Pioneer with a Difference: Thomas Paine and Early âAmerican Studiesâ
Bibliography
Index