Title The politics of regicide in England, 1760-1850 : troublesome subjects / Steve Poole

Edition First digital paperback edition Published Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource Contents THE POLITICS OF REGICIDE IN ENGLAND, 1760-185O; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: monarchy, contractualism and history; Monarchy and the historical imagination; Constitutional contract theory and the Whig tradition ineighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England; 2 The Crown and the secular magic of petition; Petition and the secular divinity of 'the touch'; Petitioning the throne in custom and practice; Early murmurs of discontent: popular resistance to George IIIfrom Wilkes to Sayre 3 Monarchy and the policing of insanityBow Street and the security of the monarch; Prosecuting troublesome subjects; 4 The madness of Margaret Nicholson; Treason negated: Nicholson and the familial nation; Some contexts: Damiens, Byng, Tyrie and Gordon; Madness constructed; Nicholson and the public; Nicholson and petitioning; 5 Treason compassed: popular mobilisation and physicality in the1790s; Madness, law and the levelling stone of John Frith, 1790; Political plots and constructive treason: the LCS, petitioningand resistance; My Lord, I have been shot at!' The St James's Park riot, 1795 Aftermath6 Lunacy and politics at fin de siècle, 1800-3; Cheating death twice, 15 May 1800; The Hadfield Act; An epidemic of lunatics: troublesome subjects after Hadfield,1800-2; The guards' plot of 1802: Despard and king killing; 7 The potatoes speak for themselves: regicide, radicalism andGeorge IV, 1811-30; Resistance rehearsed; Resistance reconsidered; Peterloo and beyond; 8 Collins in context: William IV, affability and the reform crisis,1830-37; Affability and the citizen King; The case of Dennis Collins, 1832; Politics and the patriot King 9 Monarchy goes private: Peel's Protection Act and the retreat fromapproachability, 1837-50Oxford, Francis and Bean; Interpretation and punishment; Peel's Royal Protection Act, 1842; The Crown and Government Security Act, 1848; An English queen's castle is her home: privacy, intrusion andthe early Victorian monarchy; 10 Conclusion; Select bibliography; Index Summary This lively and accessible book reappraises the often complex relationship between British monarchs and some of their more troublesome subjects in the 'age of revolutions'. By exposing a rationale behind the efforts of the mad and the politically disaffected to intrude upon, assault or pester kings and queens from George III to Victoria, the author casts new light upon the contested languages of constitutionalism, contract theory and the rights of petition. The Hanoverian dynasty sought security from republicanism during the 1790s by reinventing itself as an affable, domestic, flexible and solicitous institution. But majesty and approachability were to prove uneasy bedfellows, and popular frustrations over unanswered petitions could provoke serious personal moments of crisis. In its detailed reconstruction of the mentalities of such unsuccessful and forgotten Royal 'assassins' as Margaret Nicholson, James Hadfield and Dennis Collins, this unique and pioneering study of monarchical history from below will interest the specialist and general reader alike, and provoke fresh controversy over the viability of monarchies in the modern world Analysis Crown Elizabeth II Franklin L. Ford George III Margaret Nicholson historiographical approaches monarchy myth creation narcissism petitioning plebeian English patriotism royal idleness royal space terrorism Notes Originally published by Manchester University Press 2000. First digital paperback edition published 2012 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, Oct. 10, 2018) Print version record Subject Monarchy -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Monarchy -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Monarchy -- Great Britain -- Public opinion -- History -- 18th century Monarchy -- Great Britain -- Public opinion -- History -- 19th century Regicides -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Regicides -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900. HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain. Monarchy Monarchy -- Public opinion Politics and government Regicides SUBJECT Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056900 Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056911 Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056808 Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056819 Subject Great Britain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781526130617 1526130610

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