{"product_id":"print-politics-the-press-and-radical-opposition-in-early-nineteenth-century-england-hardback-9780521496551","title":"Print Politics; The Press and Radical Opposition in Early Nineteenth-Century England (Hardback) 9780521496551","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePrint Politics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Press and Radical Opposition in Early Nineteenth-Century England\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiterary study of the popular radical press in England, 1800–1830.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKevin Gilmartin (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521496551, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 5 December 1996\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e292 pages, 6 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.9 x 2.1 cm, 0.527 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"It is a book written by a young literary scholar that is so rich in historical insight that historians of popular radicalism cannot afford to ignore it.  ...a canonical text within radical scholarship.\"    Philip Harling, Albion\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePrint 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: locating a plebeian counterpublic sphere\u003cbr\u003e Part I. A Rhetoric of Radical Opposition: 1. Party, corruption and political opposition\u003cbr\u003e 2. Representing the people: the press and parliamentary reform\u003cbr\u003e 3. Beyond corruption: independence, personality, egotism\u003cbr\u003e 4. The radical profession and 'the wholesale trade of sedition'\u003cbr\u003e 5. Countersystem and the ends of opposition\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Radical Print Culture In Periodical Form: 1. Popular radicalism in print\u003cbr\u003e 2. Periodical forms in crisis\u003cbr\u003e 3. A form deformed\u003cbr\u003e 4. Radical reading and radical organization\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Trials of Radicalism: Assembling the Evidence of Reform: 1. The law of libel\u003cbr\u003e 2. The courtroom defence as public offence\u003cbr\u003e 3. Radical assembly in print\u003cbr\u003e 4. 'A fair, plain and honest account'\u003cbr\u003e 5 The language of fact: apocalypse without imagination\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Reading Cobbett's Contradictions: 1. 'The system'\u003cbr\u003e 2. Writing as system and countersystem\u003cbr\u003e 3. The economy of the world and the disappearance of the writer\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Leigh Hunt and the End of Radical Opposition: 1. 'Reform of periodical writing'\u003cbr\u003e 2. The antinomies of independent opposition: egotism and community\u003cbr\u003e 3. The language of class in a progressive public sphere\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: William Hazlitt: a radical critique of radical opposition?\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20c%201800%20to%20c%201900%20%20%5BDSBF%5D%22\"\u003eDSBF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46004680786200,"sku":"9780521496551","price":67.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521496551i_47b9ee91-de6b-4103-b2a1-d0717cd31885.jpg?v=1691383127","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/print-politics-the-press-and-radical-opposition-in-early-nineteenth-century-england-hardback-9780521496551","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}