Print Politics

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, 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.

First sentence: Early nineteenth-century radicalism can be defined as a protest against the dominance of two political parties.

Year

1996

Language

English

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Editions

2

Pages

290

ISBN

9780521496551

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