The Laurel of Liberty Mee, Jon creator author. text enk 2016 monographic eng 1 online resource (292 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). 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. Jon Mee. Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 May 2017). Open Access title. 9781316459935 (ebook) https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316459935 https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316459935 UkCbUP 150511 20170608110003.0 CR9781316459935 eng