Print Politics is 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 (including the work of William Cobbett, Richard Carlile and Leigh Hunt), and in the public culture of the time.
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Print Politics: The Press and Radical Opposition in Early Nineteenth-Century England
Print Politics is 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 (including the work of William Cobbett, Richard Carlile and Leigh Hunt), and in the public culture of the time.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780521021128 |
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Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Publication date: | 10/13/2005 |
Series: | Cambridge Studies in Romanticism , #21 |
Pages: | 292 |
Product dimensions: | 5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.63(d) |
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