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

Mee, Jon

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1107590086 ISBN 13: 9781107590083

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2018

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 in the 1790s. This title is also available as Open Access.

Su questo libro

Recensione:

'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 by theoretical contributions through very fine micro-readings.' Rémy Duthille, translated from Revue de la Société d'études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles

Descrizione del libro:

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.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1107590086
• ISBN 13: 9781107590083
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 294