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
Dr Adam Bridgen's Outputs (8)
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
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/9780197655542.003.0004Thomas 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/9780197655542.003.0006Humphry 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