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oapen-20.500.12657-300802021-11-12T16:08:13Z Print, Publicity and Radicalism in the 1790s Mee, Jon Literature London Radicalism (historical) Thelwall Thomas Hardy Thomas Paine William Godwin 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. 2018-05-18 23:55 2020-03-31 03:00:26 2020-04-01T12:44:45Z 2020-04-01T12:44:45Z 2016-06-01 book 650020 OCN: 1076637991 9781316459935 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30080 eng application/pdf n/a 650020.pdf Cambridge University Press 10.26530/oapen_611256 103461 10.26530/oapen_611256 7607a2d0-47af-490f-9d2a-8c9340266f8a b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781316459935 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 103461 KU Round 2 611256 Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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.
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