Print, Publicity, and Popular Radicalism in the 1790s - The Laurel of Liberty

Reveals the development of the idea of 'the people' through print and publicity in 1790s London. This title is also available as Open Access.

List 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'.

About the author

Jon Mee is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of York and Director of the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies. He has published many essays and books on the literature, culture, and politics of the age of revolutions in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He is also author of The Cambridge Introduction to Charles Dickens (Cambridge, 2010).

Summary

A revisionary account, by a leading scholar, of the turbulent decade of the 1790s, during which radical ideas spread to Britain from revolutionary France and were circulated and popularised in new ways. The study offers a general account together with case studies of key individuals of the period. This title is also available as Open Access.

Product details

• Authors: Jon Mee, Jon (University of York) Mee, Mee Jon
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781107590083
• ISBN: 978-1-107-59008-3
• No. of pages: 293
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism; Cambridge Studies in Romantici; Cambridge Studies in Romanticism; Cambridge Studies in Romantici
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Europe, c 1500 onwards to present day, Reportage & collected journalism, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Specific wars and campaigns, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, Early 19th century c 1800 to c 1850, Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare), Napoleonic Wars, C 1700 To C 1800