Radical Conduct: Politics, Sociability and Equality in London 1789-1815 PDF
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Radical Conduct While the French Revolution drew immense attention to French rad- icals and their ideas, London also played host to a radical intellectual culture.Drawingonbothoriginalmaterialandarangeofinterdisciplin- aryinsights,RadicalConducttransformsourunderstandingoftheliter- aryradicalismofLondonatthetimeoftheFrenchRevolution.Itoffers newaccountsofpeople’sunderstandingofandrelationshiptopolitics, their sense of the boundaries of privacy, their practices of sociability, friendship,gossipanddiscussion,therelationsbetweenradicalmenand women,andtheirlocationinawiderworldofsoundandmovementin theperiod.Itrevealsaseriesoftensionsbetweenmanyradicals’delib- erative practices and aspirations and the conventions and practices in which their behaviour remained embedded. Exploring these relation- shipsand pressures reveals thefractured world ofLondon society and politics,dramaticallyilluminatingboththechangingfortunesofradical menandwomenandtheintriguinguncertaintiesthatdrovesomeofthe government’srepressivepolicies. mark philp isProfessorofHistoryattheUniversityofWarwickand an Emeritus Fellow of Oriel College. He has published widely on the historyofideas,lateeighteenthandearlynineteenthcenturyEuropean historyandonpoliticalrealismandethicsinpubliclife.Heistheauthor ofPoliticalConduct(2007)andReformingIdeasinBritain(2013). Radical Conduct Politics, Sociability and Equality in London 1789–1815 Mark Philp UniversityofWarwick UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,NY10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,VIC3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 79AnsonRoad,#06–04/06,Singapore079906 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781108842181 DOI:10.1017/9781108898768 ©MarkPhilp2020 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2020 AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. ISBN978-1-108-84218-1Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracy ofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. For the home team, with thanks: Sarah, Joe, Ruth, Hannah, Matthew and Ben Figures and Tables FIGURE 1.1 Percentage change in use ofpolitical terms, 1770–1870 page 40 TABLES 1.1 Political terminology (reformist), 1770–1870 page 39 1.2 Political terminology (general), 1770–1870 41 viii Contents Listof Figuresand Tables page viii Acknowledgements ix Introduction 1 1 Politics and Privacy 23 2 Disagreementand Deliberation 57 3 Plurality: Women’sCircles in London 93 4 Radical Literary Women 123 5 Gender and Deliberative Equality 155 6 Negotiating Equality 170 7 A Private Affair 185 8 Music and Movement 207 Conclusion: Life during Wartime 240 Bibliography 253 Index 268 vii
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