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Radical Underworld: Prophets, Revolutionaries, and Pornographers in London, 1795-1840 Revised Edition
Contributor(s): McCalman, Iain (Author)

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 ISBN: 0198122861     ISBN-13: 9780198122869
Publisher: Clarendon Press
OUR PRICE: $77.90  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: September 1993
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Annotation: 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.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe - Great Britain - General
Dewey: 320.942
Physical Information: 0.89" H x 5.04" W x 8.54" L (1.04 lbs) 358 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
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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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