Transnational Echoes of Spenceanism: A Text-Mining Exploration in English-Language Newspapers (1790–1850)
Matilde Cazzola,
Anselm Küsters
Abstract:By tracing mentions of the English radical thinker Thomas Spence (1750–1814), his revolutionary “Plan”, and his disciples (the “Spencean Philanthropists”) in digitized collections of English-language Irish, Caribbean, Indian, Australian, Canadian, and US-American newspapers in the 1790s–1840s, this article explores the dissemination of the ideas and militancy inspired by Spence (“Spenceanism”) across the British Empire and the United States. By applying Digital Humanities methods to investigate British radical… Show more
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