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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136754703321

Autore

Mee Jon

Titolo

Print, publicity, and popular radicalism in the 1790s : the laurel of liberty / / Jon Mee [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge University Press, 2016

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2016

ISBN

1-316-59533-1

1-316-59435-1

1-316-45993-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 272 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism ; ; 112

Disciplina

302.23/2094109033

Soggetti

Mass media and public opinion - Great Britain - History - 18th century

Mass media and publicity - Great Britain - History - 18th century

Radicalism - England - History - 18th century

Politics and literature - England - History - 18th century

Popular culture - Great Britain - History - 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Jul 2016).

Open Access title.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

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. This title will



also be available as Open Access.