Title Radical conduct : politics, sociability and equality in London, 1789-1815 / Mark Philp, University of Warwick

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020 ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 273 pages) : illustrations Contents Politics and privacy -- Disagreement and Deliberation -- Plurality: Women's Circles in London -- Radical Literary Women -- Gender and Deliberative Equality -- Negotiating Equality -- A private affair -- Music and Movement -- Conclusion: Life During Wartime Summary "Radical Conduct draws on both original material and a range of interdisciplinary insights to transform our understanding of the literary radicalism of London at the time of the French Revolution. It offers new accounts of people's understanding of and relationship to politics, their sense of the boundaries of privacy, their practices of sociability and friendship, the place of gossip and deliberation, relations between radical men and women, and their location in a wider world of sound and movement in the period. It reveals a series of tensions between many radicals' deliberative aspirations and the social conventions and practices in which their behaviour remained embedded. In doing so, it provides an understanding of the very fractured world of London society and politics, and sheds light both on the changing fortunes of radical men and women and on the uncertainties that drove the government's repressive policies and the loyalist reaction. The book centres on circles around William Godwin and women writers of the 1790s, including Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Inchbald and Amelia Alderson, while also using a range of materials explored for the first time in relation to other figures and circles in London in the period"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 23, 2020) Subject Literature and society -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century Literature and society -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century Authors, English -- 18th century -- Political and social views Authors, English -- 19th century -- Political and social views. Radicalism -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century Radicalism -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century Authors, English -- Political and social views Intellectual life Literature and society Radicalism SUBJECT London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85078216 London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85078217 Subject England -- London Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book LC no. 2020009078 ISBN 9781108898768 1108898769 9781108902304 1108902308

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