Print, publicity, and popular radicalism in the 1790s : the laurel of liberty
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Print, publicity, and popular radicalism in the 1790s : the laurel of liberty
(Cambridge studies in romanticism, 112)
Cambridge University Press, 2018
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-260) and index
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Description
Jon Mee explores the popular democratic movement that emerged in the London of the 1790s in response to the French Revolution. Central to the movement's achievement was the creation of an idea of 'the people' brought into being through print and publicity. Radical clubs rose and fell in the face of the hostile attentions of government. They were sustained by a faith in the press as a form of 'print magic', but confidence in the liberating potential of the printing press was interwoven with hard-headed deliberations over how best to animate and represent the people. Ideas of disinterested rational debate were thrown into the mix with coruscating satire, rousing songs, and republican toasts. Print personality became a vital interface between readers and print exploited by the cast of radicals returned to history in vivid detail by Print, Publicity, and Popular Radicalism in the 1790s. This title is also available as Open Access.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: the open theatre of the world?
- Part I. Publicity, Print, and Association: 1. Popular radical print culture: 'the more public the better'
- 2. The radical associations and 'the general will'
- Part II. Radical Personalities: 3. 'Once a squire and now a man': Robert Merry and the pains of politics
- 4. 'The ablest head, with the blackest heart:' Charles Pigott and the scandal of radicalism
- 5. Citizen Lee at 'The tree of liberty'
- 6. John Thelwall and the 'whole will of the nation'.
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