The British periodical press and the French Revolution, 1789-99 / Stuart Andrews.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andrews, Stuart, 1932-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English newspapers.

History.

Press and politics.

Journalists.

France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Foreign public opinion, British.

France.

France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Journalists.

Press and politics--Great Britain--History--18th century.

English newspapers--History--18th century.

Public opinion--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Public opinion.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1789-1820.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xi, 280 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave, 2000.

Summary:

This study challenges the conventional polarities used to describe British politics of the 1790s: Pitt versus Fox, Burke versus Paine, Church versus Dissent, ruling class versus working class, Jacobin versus anti-Jacobin. Such polarities were sedulously promoted by Pitt's wartime government, which applied "Jacobin" shamelessly to all its critics and opponents, and thus foreshadowed the McCarthyite tactic of guilt by association. The author seeks to make the less strident but more persuasive contemporary voices again audible. He takes seriously those who who deplored Britain's alliance with the partitioners of Poland.

Contents:

1 Bastille Euphoria 1

2 Burke Rebutted 14

3 Instant History: Burke, Godwin and the Annual Registers 28

4 War, Sedition and Censorship 42

5 Pitt the Apostate: Beddoes, Coleridge and The Watchman 56

6 Canning's Counterattack: the Weekly Anti-Jacobin 69

7 'Jacobin Poetry': Southey, Cottle and Lyrical Ballads 83

8 Smears and Subsidies: the Monthly Anti-Jacobin 97

9 'Jacobin Morality': the Wollstonecraft Memoirs 111

10 'Jacobin Prints': Courier and Star, Chronicle and Post 124

11 Reviewers Reviewed: Monthly and Critical 138

12 Murder by Ridicule: the End of the Analytical 152

13 Cromwell's Ghosts: Republicans and Dissenters 166

14 Millennialism and Popery 179

15 Transatlantic Comparisons: American Porcupine 192

16 Jacobins and Anti-Jacobins 204

Appendix Burke's Jacobins 217.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-262) and index.

ISBN:

0333738519

0312237812

OCLC:

43992947