New Directions in Thomas Paine Studies

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
The Historiographical and Cultural Impact of Thomas Paine: A Quantitative Approach....Pages 13-29
Examining the Thomas Paine Corpus: Automated Computer Authorship Attribution Methodology Applied to Thomas Paine’s Writings....Pages 31-47
Front Matter....Pages 49-49
“A Kind of Bee-Hive”: Thomas Paine and the Pennsylvania Magazine....Pages 51-68
Apostles of Freedom: Pro-French American Democrats and Thomas Paine as Religious Crusaders....Pages 69-91
Paine’s Rights Reconsidered....Pages 93-106
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
Irreligion Made Easy: The Reaction to Thomas Paine’s The Age of Reason....Pages 109-131
Thomas Paine’s Le Siècle de la Raison, ou Le Sens Commun Des Droits De L’Homme: Notes on a Curious Edition of The Age of Reason....Pages 133-153
Front Matter....Pages 155-155
Thomas Paine’s Lessons in Republicanism, 1802–1807....Pages 157-174
Thomas Paine’s Reflections on the Social Contract: A Consistent Theory?....Pages 175-193
The Aim and Meaning of Constitutions According to Thomas Paine....Pages 195-206
Bringing Thomas Paine to Latin America: An Overview of the Geopolitics of Translating Common Sense into Spanish....Pages 207-227
Erasure of Public Memory: The Strange Case of Tom Paine in Washington, DC....Pages 229-245
Back Matter....Pages 247-253