Jon Mee explores the popular democratic movement that emerged in the London of the 1790s in response to the French Revolution. Central to the movement's achieve

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Eighteenth-century Britain thought of itself as a polite, sentimental, enlightened place, but often its literature belied this self-image. This was an age of sa

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An innovative new reading of the character of, and tensions in, London's radical intellectual culture at the time of the French Revolution.