William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England [electronic resource] : Radicalism and the Fourth Estate, 1792-1835 /
Grande, James.author.
William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England offers a thorough re-appraisal of William Cobbett (1763-1835), situating his journalism and rural radicalism in relation to contemporary political debates.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Digging up the 1790s; 1 From the Soldier's Friend to Peter Porcupine; The Soldier's Friend and the Revolution debate; Peter Porcupine in Philadelphia; 2 William Windham and the Hampshire Hog; Burke's ghost; The Botley farmer; 3 Prison, Paper Money and Cobbett's 'Two-Penny Trash'; The history of the debt; Between Burke and Paine; Newgate farming; 4 Long Island Pastoral; From Adam to Crusoe; Grammar and emigration; Bones and seeds; 5 Cobbett and Queen Caroline; Writing to the Queen
The Queen's letter to the KingAddresses to the Queen; After the trial; 6 Rural Rides and the 1820s; Writing on the road; Landscape, politics, aesthetics; Roadside meetings and Reformation history; 7 'Rural War' and the July Revolution; Letters from Paris; Swing letters; Reprisals; Postscript: Cobbett's Legacies; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England offers a thorough re-appraisal of William Cobbett (1763-1835), situating his journalism and rural radicalism in relation to contemporary political debates.
Cobbett, William, 1763-1835.
Fiction.
Literature—Philosophy.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
Literature, Modern.
British literature.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Fiction.
Literary Theory.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Cultural Theory.