| Description |
xvi, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Contents : 1. Jacobin-Spenceans: Thomas Evans and the revolutionary underground. -- 2. 'Old blackguard' Spenceans: Evans and unrespectable radicalism. -- 3. Millenarian Spenceans: Robert Wedderburn and Methodist prophecy. -- 4. Infidel Spenceans: George Cannon and rationalist philosophy. -- 5. Spencer's successor, 1814-17. -- 6. Tavern debating clubs: Spencean strategy and culture, 1815-17. -- 7. Blasphemous chapels: the preacher as insurrectionary, 1818-20. -- 8. The ultra-radical press: philosophes and populists, 1819-21. -- 9. The ultra-radical march of mind: politics, religion and respectability. -- 10. Grub Street Jacks: obscene populism and pornography |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [293]-325 |
| Subject |
Spence, Thomas, 1750-1814.
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Spence, Thomas.
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Radicalism -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century.
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| LC no. |
87011770 |
| ISBN |
0521307554 |
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