Print Politics
Subtitle: The Press and Radical Opposition in Early Nineteenth-Century England (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 28, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780521496551
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Press and politics; History - General History; Romanticism; Mass Communication Media And Politics; English; Literary Criticism; Eastern Europe; Journalism; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Europe - Great Britain - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / Eastern European; Press and politics--Great Britain--History--19th century; Radicalism; Eastern European; 19th century; Great Britain; History; Politics and government
First sentence: Early nineteenth-century radicalism can be defined as a protest against the dominance of two political parties.
Description: 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.