Radical conduct : politics, sociability and equality in London, 1789-1815

Author(s)

• Philp, Mark

Bibliographic Information

Radical conduct : politics, sociability and equality in London, 1789-1815

Mark Philp

Cambridge University Press, 2020

• : hbk.

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

While the French Revolution drew immense attention to French radicals and their ideas, London also played host to a radical intellectual culture. Drawing on both original material and a range of interdisciplinary insights, Radical Conduct transforms our understanding of the literary radicalism of London at the time of the French Revolution. It offers new accounts of people's understanding of and relationship to politics, their sense of the boundaries of privacy, their practices of sociability, friendship, gossip and discussion, the relations between radical men and women, and their location in a wider world of sound and movement in the period. It reveals a series of tensions between many radicals' deliberative practices and aspirations and the conventions and practices in which their behaviour remained embedded. Exploring these relationships and pressures reveals the fractured world of London society and politics, dramatically illuminating both the changing fortunes of radical men and women, and the intriguing uncertainties that drove some of the government's repressive policies.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• 1. Politics and privacy
• 2. Disagreement and deliberation
• 3. Plurality: women's circles in London
• 4. Radical literary women
• 5. Gender and deliberative equality
• 6. Negotiating equality
• 7. A private affair
• 8. Music and movement
• Conclusion. Life during wartime.

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Details

• NCID: BC02206785
• ISBN:
  • 9781108842181
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 273 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 820.9942109033
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Literature and society -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century
  • LCSH : Literature and society -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Authors, English -- 18th century -- Political and social views
  • LCSH : Authors, English -- 19th century -- Political and social views
  • LCSH : Radicalism -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century
  • LCSH : Radicalism -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
  • LCSH : London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century