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• Title: Kinship, Generation and Community: The Transmission of Political Ideology in Radical Plebeian Print Culture (Critical Essay)
• Author : Studies in Romanticism
• Release Date : January 22, 2004
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 216 KB

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THIS ESSAY WILL ARGUE THAT PLEBEIAN RADICALISM TRANSPOSED ITSELF effortlessly across the two generations usually associated with literary Romanticism. The principal vehicle of radicalism's generation was the family. It will be shown that radical families can be identified and located even as, protean like, they re-grouped, re-formed, adapted, negotiated and struggled under successive political regimes intent on their surveillance and control. From the start of the French Revolution in 1789, English plebeian radicalism was already fully articulated within its emergent plebeian public sphere "May Revolution generate Revolutions till Despotism is extinct" was in a printed List of Toasts, &c., picked up by a tavern spy in the Borough, London, during a 1792 reformist meeting. (1) This essay will suggest that we take that toast at face value in order to see that 1790s revolutionary radicalism was pursued with equal vigor in the 1800S and 1810S and that the family was the staple of its successful longevity. Like it or not, English literature was a footnote to many contemporary radicals including, paradoxically, those most concerned with the printed word. Richard Carlile in an 1822 issue of his Republican, literally trashed a rare new edition of John Milton's political writings and rubbished Paradise Lost for good measure: "Milton was a Republican, and has left us something which are called political writings: but what are they when put forward for the instruction of the present generation? They are trash when compared with the writings of Thomas Paine, and are as contemptible as is the subject of his [Milton's] best poem. A more useless publication could not have appeared at this moment than the political writings of Milton." (2) If Carlile gives short shrift to so much held dear by the major Romantic poets, it is because his energies were firmly focused on the "present generation" at a time when the "Old Jacks" of the 1790s were, literally, dying out and when, at "this moment," scores of young shopmen and women were keeping his Republican going while he languished in Dorchester prison.

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