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• Author/Creator:Mee, Jon, author.
  
• Title:Print, publicity, and popular radicalism in the 1790s : the laurel of liberty / Jon Mee.
  
• ISBN:1107590086
  9781107590083
  9781316595336
  1316595331
  9781107133617
  9781107590083
  9781316459935
  1316459934
  1107133610
  1316459934020
  
• Publication:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
  
• Physical Description:1 online resource (1 electronic resource (xiii, 272 pages))
  
• Links:Online book
  

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• Summary: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.
  
• Variant and related titles:KU 2015-16 Round 2 Collection. OCLC KB.
  
• Other formats:Print version: Print, publicity, and popular radicalism in the 1790s. Cambridge ; Cambridge University Press, 2016
  
• Format:Book
• Series:Cambridge Studies in Romanticism ; 112
  Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 112.
  
• BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references and index.
  
• Contents:Introduction : The open theatre of the world? -- Part I : Publicity, print, and association. Popular radical print culture : 'the more public the better' -- The radical associations and 'the general will' -- Part II : Radical personalities. 'Once a squire and now a man' : Robert Merry and the pains of politics -- 'The ablest head, with the blackest heart' : Charles Pigott and the scandal of radicalism -- Citizen Lee at the 'Tree of liberty' -- John Thelwall and the 'whole will of the nation'.
  
• Subjects: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.
  Mass media and public opinion.
  Mass media and publicity.
  Popular culture.
  England.
  Great Britain.
  
• Genre/Form:Electronic books.
  History.