New Directions in Thomas Paine Studies

Scott Cleary is Associate Professor of English at Iona College, USA. He has published on a wide variety of eighteenth-century authors, including Alexander Pope, Christopher Smart, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Paine. He is currently the Director of Iona College's Institute for Thomas Paine Studies. Ivy Linton Stabell is Assistant Professor of English at Iona College, USA. She has published essays on biographies written for children in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America.

“New Directions in Thomas Paine Studies is a collection of essays that invites conversations across lines of geography and methodology. … the book as a whole succeeds in bringing together scholarship that would never otherwise come together before the public eye. … New Directions in Thomas Paine Studies demonstrates that scholars continue to produce new and valuable information about this cosmopolitan revolutionary and his legacy in many countries.” (Kirsten Fischer, Cercles, cercles.com, October, 2017)

• 1. The Historiographical and Cultural Impact of Thomas Paine: A Quantitative Approach; Raymond Irwin2. Examining the Thomas Paine Corpus: Automated Computer Authorship Attribution Methodology Applied to Thomas Paine's Writings; Gary Berton, Smiljana Petrovic, Lubomir Ivanov, and Robert Schiaffino3. 'A Kind of Bee-Hive': Thomas Paine and the Pennsylvania Magazine; Peter Chapin and Kara Nowakowski4. Apostles of Freedom: Pro-French American Democrats and Thomas Paine as Religious Crusaders; Matthew Rainbow Hale5. Paine's Rights Reconsidered; Gregory Claeys6. Irreligion Made Easy: The Reaction to Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason; Patrick Hughes7. 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; David Hoffman and Claudia Carlos8. Thomas Paine's Lessons in Republicanism, (1802-1807); Marc Belissa9. Thomas Paine's Reflections on the Social Contract: a Consistent Theory?; Carine Lounissi10. The Aim and Meaning of Constitutions According to Thomas Paine; Maurizio Griffo11. Erasure of Public Memory: The Strange Case of Tom Paine in Washington, D.C.; Richard Robyn