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Cambridge Studies in Romanticism: Series Number 112: Print, Publicity, and Popular Radicalism in the 1790s: The Laurel of Liberty
Jon Mee
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Condition
New
Weight
599g
Number of Pages
292
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107133617
SKU
V9781107133617
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Ref
99-16
About Jon Mee
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). ... Read more
Reviews for Cambridge Studies in Romanticism: Series Number 112: Print, Publicity, and Popular Radicalism in the 1790s: The Laurel of Liberty
'A fascinating and insightful look at a very dangerous time in British history, Mee's excellent book also speaks directly to us in the early 21st century as radicals once more try to disrupt civilisation.' Sun News Austin (www.sunnewsaustin.com) '... [this is] a book of very high quality, a cultural history both nourished by ... deep research in archives and problematized ... Read more