British Jacobin politics, desires, and aftermaths : seditious hearts /

This book explores the hopes, desires and imagined futures which characterized British radicalism in the 1790s, and the resurfacing of this sense of possibility in the following decades. The articulation of "Jacobin" sentiments reflected the emotional investments of men and women inspired...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Epstein, James (Author), Karr, David, 1963- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Routledge, [2021]
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	Enlightenment world ; 35.
Subjects:	Great Britain > Politics and government > 1789-1820. Political culture > Great Britain > History > 18th century. Political culture > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > 18th century. Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Radicalism > Great Britain > History > 18th century. Radicalism > Great Britain > History > 19th century. France > History > Revolution, 1789-1799 > Influence.

Table of Contents:

Playing at revolution: British "Jacobin" performance
Everyday life and everyday sedition: situating radical identities
"Thoughts that flash like lightning": Thomas Holcroft and radical theater
"Equality and no king": sociability and sedition
Writing America from Newgate Prison, 1795
1817: return of the suppressed
"The embers of expiring sedition": Maurice Margarot, the Scottish martyrs monument, and radical memory across the South Pacific
Among the Romantics: E.P. Thompson and the poetics of disenchantment.