02169nam a22003378i 4500 CR9781316459935 UkCbUP 20170608110003.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 150511s2016||||enk o ||1 0|eng|d 9781316459935 (ebook) 9781107133617 (hardback) 9781107590083 (paperback) UkCbUP eng rda UkCbUP Mee, Jon, author. Print, Publicity, and Popular Radicalism in the 1790s : The Laurel of Liberty / Jon Mee. Print, Publicity, & Popular Radicalism in the 1790s Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016. 1 online resource (292 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Cambridge Studies in Romanticism ; 112 Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 May 2017). Open Access title. 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. Print version: 9781107133617 Cambridge Studies in Romanticism ; 112. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316459935 204467 204467