School of Social, Historical and Literary Studies
Profile
Ben Dew’s principal research interests are in the literature and political philosophy of the Enlightenment. His work is particularly concerned with the relationship between Enlightenment political and social theory, and popular politics. He has written articles on Bernard Mandeville, David Hume and eighteenth-century labour theory, and is currently completing a monograph-length study entitled Enlightenment and Labour in Britain, 1700-1800.
Current Research Projects
Enlightenment and Labour (a book-length monograph which looks at ideas of labour and the labourer in eighteenth-century social and political theory).
‘Inhabiting Wilkes’ (an article on the Wilkite publisher William Bingley).