Radical Underworld: Prophets, Revolutionaries, and Pornographers in London, 1795-1840

Radical Underworld: Prophets, Revolutionaries, and Pornographers in London, 1795-1840

by Iain McCalman
Radical Underworld: Prophets, Revolutionaries, and Pornographers in London, 1795-1840
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ISBN-10:
0198122861
ISBN-13:
9780198122869
Pub. Date:
09/30/1993
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0198122861
ISBN-13:
9780198122869
Pub. Date:
09/30/1993
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Radical Underworld: Prophets, Revolutionaries, and Pornographers in London, 1795-1840

Radical Underworld: Prophets, Revolutionaries, and Pornographers in London, 1795-1840

by Iain McCalman

Overview

This highly acclaimed study draws on information from spy reports and contemporary literature to look at English popular radicalism during the period between the anti-Jacobin government "Terror" of the 1790s and the beginnings of Chartism. The book traces for the first time the history of the underground revolutionary-republican grouping founded by the agrarian reformer, Thomas Spence. Challenging conventional distinctions between "high" and "low" culture, McCalman illuminates the darker, more populist sides of Romanticism. Radical Underworld broadens the conventional boundaries of popular politics and culture by exploring a political underworld connected with poverty, crime, prophetic religion, and literary culture.

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ISBN-13: 9780198122869
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 09/30/1993
Series: Clarendon Paperbacks
Edition description: Revised ed.
Pages: 358
Product dimensions: 9.25(w) x 6.12(h) x 0.83(d)

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