Print Politics was the first literary study of the culture of the popular radical movement for parliamentary reform in the early decades of the nineteenth century. The period was characterized by popular agitation and repressive political measures including trials for seditious and blasphemous libel. Kevin Gilmartin explores the styles and strategies of radical opposition in the periodical press, and in the public culture of the time.
He argues that writers and editors including William Cobbett, T. J. Wooler, Richard Carlile, John Wade, and Leigh Hunt committed themselves to a complex, flexible, and often contradictory project of independent political opposition.
They sought to maintain a political resistance uncompromised by the influence of a corrupt 'system', even while addressing and imitating its practices to further their oppositional ends.
| ISBN: | 9780521496551 |
| Publication date: | 12th May 1996 |
| Author: | Kevin Gilmartin |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 274 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in Romanticism |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 |
Print Politics was the first literary study of the culture of the popular radical movement for parliamentary reform in the early decades of the nineteenth century. The period was characterized by popular agitation and repressive political measures including trials for seditious and blasphemous libel.
Print Politics features in the following genres: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
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Print Politics was written by Kevin Gilmartin and published by Cambridge University Press
Print Politics has 274 pages
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