'The Laurel of Liberty': The Culture of Popular Radicalism in London 1792-5

“自由桂冠”：1792-5 年伦敦的大众激进主义文化

• 批准号: AH/J007463/1
• 负责人: Jon Mee
• 金额: $ 8.51万
• 依托单位: University of Warwick
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2013 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FJ007463%2F1
• 关键词: Laurel; Liberty; Culture; Popular; Radicalism

The Laurel of Liberty will provide an account of popular radical literary culture in London 1792-5. The book is an exploration of the culture brought into being in London by the French Revolution of 1789 and, especially, by publication of Thomas Paine's Rights of Man (1791-2). This cultural efflorescence was effectively driven underground by the passing of the Gagging Acts at the end of 1795. As well as volumes of poetry and prose published by the participants, the monograph will also explore more ephemeral pamphlets, satires, ballads, poems, and songs in the culture of literary sociability found in the bookshops, taverns, and debating societies where they circulated. Those involved aspired to create a literal and metaphorical republic of letters out of the opportunities created by the Revolution in France and Paine's book in the face of Pitt's repression. The book will have two parts. A long first chapter will explore the conditions created by revolutionary optimism out of the expansion of print culture that preceded 1789 as they collided with the government repression and surveillance. It culminates with the trial of Paine in absentia in 1792. The second part will look at a series of particular case studies: Robert Merry, Charles Pigott, Richard 'Citizen' Lee, and John Thelwall, relating their work to a network of other radical writers, including the W. H. Reid, Thomas Spence, Robert Thompson, and publishers such as Daniel Isaac Eaton, James Ridgway, and H. D. Symonds to give a sense of the complex landscape of popular radicalism in these heady years. The period is frequently seen as the immediate background to Romantic period. Canonical studies of poets such as William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Wordsworth often refer to their involvement in it, but the 'culture' in itself has rarely been studied as a whole as a distinctive republic of letters. Similarly political historians tend to focus on narrow questions of the agenda for reform, often castigating those involved for failing to come up with a coherent program. This last approach ignores the fact that those involved were responding to cultural changes and aspirations that reached beyond questions of political reform narrowly conceived. Many had written poetry, contributed to journals, joined in popular debating societies in the expansion of print culture in the years before the French Revolution. By making available a handlist of the publications produced in this culture available in limited copies in various scattered archives and providing a workshop on the nature and potential of these resources, the project aims to disseminate a sense of the fecundity and possibilities of this archive for other literary and historical studies in the period and beyond.

《自由桂冠》将讲述 1792 年 5 月伦敦流行的激进文学文化。这本书探索了 1789 年法国大革命，特别是托马斯·潘恩 (Thomas Paine) 的《人权》(1791-2) 的出版在伦敦形成的文化。 1795 年底《禁言法案》的通过有效地推动了这种文化的繁荣转入地下。除了参与者出版的诗集和散文外，该专着还将探讨在书店、酒馆和辩论社团中发现的更多短暂的小册子、讽刺作品、民谣、诗歌和歌曲，这些作品属于文学社交文化。那些参与其中的人渴望利用法国大革命和潘恩的书在面对皮特的镇压时创造的机会，创建一个字面和隐喻的文学共和国。这本书将分为两部分。第一章很长，将探讨 1789 年之前印刷文化扩张与政府镇压和监视相冲突时革命乐观主义所创造的条件。 1792 年对潘恩的缺席审判将其推向高潮。第二部分将着眼于一系列具体案例研究：罗伯特·梅里、查尔斯·皮戈特、理查德·“公民”·李和约翰·塞尔沃尔，将他们的作品与其他激进作家网络联系起来，包括 W. H. 里德、托马斯·斯彭斯、罗伯特·汤普森，以及丹尼尔·艾萨克·伊顿、詹姆斯·里奇微和 H.D. 西蒙兹让我们了解了这些令人陶醉的岁月里流行激进主义的复杂面貌。这一时期经常被视为浪漫主义时期的直接背景。对威廉·布莱克、塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治和威廉·华兹华斯等诗人的经典研究经常提到他们对文化的参与，但“文化”本身很少作为一个独特的文学共和国作为一个整体来研究。同样，政治历史学家往往关注改革议程的狭隘问题，经常严厉批评那些未能提出连贯计划的相关人士。最后一种方法忽视了这样一个事实，即相关人员正在对文化变革和愿望做出反应，而这些变化和愿望超出了狭隘的政治改革问题。在法国大革命之前的几年里，许多人写过诗歌，为期刊撰稿，参加过印刷文化扩张的大众辩论社团。该项目旨在通过在各种分散的档案馆中以有限的副本提供这种文化中产生的出版物的手册，并举办有关这些资源的性质和潜力的研讨会，旨在传播这种档案馆对于这一时期及以后的其他文学和历史研究的丰富性和可能性。

项目成果

Sociable Spaces: Locating Culture in Romantic-Period Britain

社交空间：在浪漫主义时期的英国定位文化

• 发表时间: 2017
• 作者: Mee, J.

Print, Publicity, and Popular Radicalism in the 1790s: The Laurel of Liberty

1790 年代的印刷品、宣传和大众激进主义：自由桂冠

• 发表时间: 2016
• 作者: Mee, Jon