Dr Adam Bridgen's Outputs (10)

Other Realms of Labouring-Class Antislavery: The Early Verse and Medical Writing of Thomas Trotter (2025)
Book Chapter
Bridgen, A. (in press). Other Realms of Labouring-Class Antislavery: The Early Verse and Medical Writing of Thomas Trotter. In J. Goodridge, & A. Bridgen (Eds.), British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700. University of London Press

Religious Faith, Class Politics, and Equitable Progress: James Woodhouse and Elizabeth Montagu’s Contending Visions of Improvement (2024)
Book Chapter
Bridgen, A., & Van Hagen, S. (in press). Religious Faith, Class Politics, and Equitable Progress: James Woodhouse and Elizabeth Montagu’s Contending Visions of Improvement. In J. Orchard, & M. Ellis (Eds.), Bluestockings and Landscape in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Boydell & Brewer

From the Pleistocene to COVID-19: A Brief History of Fur (2023)
Book Chapter
Bridgen, A. (2023). From the Pleistocene to COVID-19: A Brief History of Fur. In A. Linzey, & C. Linzey (Eds.), The Ethics of Fur: Religious, Cultural, and Legal Perspectives (15-27). Lexington Books

"Thou Shalt Not Use the Skins of Any Living Creature" : the original anti-fur activist, Thomas Tryon (1634-1703) (2023)
Book Chapter
Bridgen, A. (2023). "Thou Shalt Not Use the Skins of Any Living Creature" : the original anti-fur activist, Thomas Tryon (1634-1703). In A. Linzey, & C. Linzey (Eds.), The Ethics of Fur: Religious, Cultural, and Legal Perspectives. Lexington Books

Literature, learning, and social hierarchy in early modern Europe: edited by Neil Kenny, Oxford, Oxford University Press (Proceedings of the British Academy, 246), 2022, 312 pp., £75.00 (hardback), ISBN 9780197267332 (2023)
Journal Article
Bridgen, A. (2023). Literature, learning, and social hierarchy in early modern Europe: edited by Neil Kenny, Oxford, Oxford University Press (Proceedings of the British Academy, 246), 2022, 312 pp., £75.00 (hardback), ISBN 9780197267332. The Seventeenth Century, 38(4), 722-724. https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117x.2023.2218233

Thomas Tryon (1634–1703): A Theology of Animal Enslavement (2023)
Book Chapter
Bridgen, A. (2023). Thomas Tryon (1634–1703): A Theology of Animal Enslavement. In A. Linzey, & C. Linzey (Eds.), Animal Theologians (53-75). New York: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197655542.003.0004

Thomas Tryon was one of the foundational voices of ethical vegetarianism. In his famous work The Way to Health, Long Life, and Happiness (1683), he stressed the Bible’s injunctions against violence toward animals as well as the negative effects of ca... Read More about Thomas Tryon (1634–1703): A Theology of Animal Enslavement.

Humphry Primatt (1735–1777): Animal Protection and Its Revolutionary Contexts (2023)
Book Chapter
Bridgen, A. (2023). Humphry Primatt (1735–1777): Animal Protection and Its Revolutionary Contexts. In A. Linzey, & C. Linzey (Eds.), Animal Theologians (96-123). New York: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197655542.003.0006

Humphry Primatt was a Church of England clergyman and author of A Dissertation on the Duty of Mercy and the Sin of Cruelty to Brute Animals (1776), one of the earliest and most influential works of animal protectionism. However, remarkably little is... Read More about Humphry Primatt (1735–1777): Animal Protection and Its Revolutionary Contexts.

A World of Fire and Drought: Ecosocialism, Improvement and Apocalypse in James Woodhouse’s Crispinus Scriblerus (2022)
Book Chapter
Bridgen, A. (2022). A World of Fire and Drought: Ecosocialism, Improvement and Apocalypse in James Woodhouse’s Crispinus Scriblerus. In V. Tee (Ed.), Romantic Environmental Sensibility: Nature, Class and Empire (172-194). Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474456494-013

Defending “Reason's rein”: Rationalism as Persuasive Strategy in Hannah More's Slavery: A Poem (1788) (2022)
Book Chapter
Bridgen, A. (2022). Defending “Reason's rein”: Rationalism as Persuasive Strategy in Hannah More's Slavery: A Poem (1788). In K. Andrews, & S. Edney (Eds.), Hannah More in Context (50-67). New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003092971-3

Patronage, Punch-Ups, and Polite Correspondence: The Radical Background of James Woodhouse’s Early Poetry (2017)
Journal Article
Bridgen, A. J. (2017). Patronage, Punch-Ups, and Polite Correspondence: The Radical Background of James Woodhouse’s Early Poetry. Huntington Library Quarterly, 80(1), 99-134. https://doi.org/10.1353/hlq.2017.0004

In this essay, Adam Bridgen argues that the oft-condemned “sycophancy” of James Woodhouse’s early poetry is a misapprehension that overlooks the emergence of his evangelical, egalitarian beliefs in the mid-1760s. Reconsidering the letters between Woo... Read More about Patronage, Punch-Ups, and Polite Correspondence: The Radical Background of James Woodhouse’s Early Poetry.