TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mee,Jon
TI  - Print, publicity, and popular radicalism in the 1790s: the laurel of liberty 
T2  - Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
SN  - 9781316459935 (ebook)
AV  - P96.P832 G736 2016
U1  - 302.23/2094109033 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Mass media and public opinion
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Mass media and publicity
KW  - Radicalism
KW  - England
KW  - Politics and literature
KW  - Popular culture
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Jul 2016); Open Access title; Open Access title
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316459935
ER  -