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Print, publicity, and popular radicalism in the 1790s : the laurel of liberty

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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 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.

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302.232094109033 MEE p

Publisher

New York : Cambridge University Press., 2016

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xiii, 272p. : ill.

Language

English

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9781316459935

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302.232094109033

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Great Britain
Popular culture
England
Mass media and public opinion
Mass media and publicity
Politics and literature
Radicalism
Radicalism in mass media

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by Jon Mee

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