Rational Dissent was a branch of Protestant religious nonconformity which emerged to prominence in England between c. 1770 and c. 1800. While small, the movemen

A wide-ranging collection of studies on Enlightenment and religion in eighteenth-century England.

Eighteenth-Century Dissent and Cambridge Platonism identifies an ethically and politically engaged philosophy of religion in eighteenth century Rational Dissent

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was one of the most influential and controversial women of her age. No writer, except perhaps her political foe, Edmund Burke, a

The first major study of the historical writings of religious dissenters in England between the 1690s and the 1790s, this book redefines the way we understand r