Apocalyptic Economics and Prophetic Politics: Radical and Romantic Responses to Malthus and Burke
Author(s)
Fulford, Tim
Abstract
In this essay I shall examine the reception of Malthus in the context of the language of politics (not least that of Cambridge Unitarians) and of political economy. Malthus, I shall argue, was received in the wake of Burke and in the context of Burke’s rhetorical attacks on radicals and dissenters. And he was received not only in the explicit critiques which the radicals made of him, but in the alternative vision of nature that they attempted to elaborate. Malthus helped shape the rhetoric of romanticism.
