Radicalism and Revolution in Britain, 1775–1848: Essays in Honour of Malcolm I. Thomis

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
‘The Friends of America’: British Sympathy with the American Revolution....Pages 1-29
Two Doubting Thomases: the British Progressive Enlightenment and the French Revolution....Pages 30-40
The Political Showman at Home: Reflections on Popular Radicalism and Print Culture in the 1790s....Pages 41-55
The Pop-Gun Plot, 1794....Pages 56-68
John Thelwall’s Political Ambivalence: Reform and Revolution....Pages 69-83
Wondering about Wonders: Paine, Constâncio and The Age of Reason, 1794–97....Pages 84-95
The United Irishmen and the Politics of Banishment, 1798–1807....Pages 96-109
‘Good for the Public Example’: Daniel Isaac Eaton, Prosecution, Punishment and Recognition, 1793–1812....Pages 110-132
A Loyal Englishman?: John Lloyd and Aspects of Oath-taking in 1812....Pages 133-142
Spreading the Radical Word: The Circulation of William Hone’s 1817 Liturgical Parodies....Pages 143-156
Political Economy and Popular Education: Thomas Hodgskin and the London Mechanics’ Institute, 1823–8....Pages 157-175
‘Rural War’ and the Missing Revolution in Early Nineteenth-century England....Pages 176-190
Whiggery and America: Accommodating the Radical Threat....Pages 191-206
Controlling the Riots: Dickens, Barnaby Rudge and Romantic Revolution....Pages 207-227
Back Matter....Pages 228-242