Radical Conduct

Politics, Sociability and Equality in London 1789-1815

Mark Philp

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781108842181
• eBook ISBN: 9781108902304
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Political History & Theory
• Index: Politics & International Relations

While the French Revolution drew immense attention to French radicals and their ideas, London also played host to a radical intellectual culture. Drawing on both original material and a range of interdisciplinary insights, Radical Conduct transforms our understanding of the literary radicalism of London at the time of the French Revolution. It offers new accounts of people's understanding of and relationship to politics, their sense of the boundaries of privacy, their practices of sociability, friendship, gossip and discussion, the relations between radical men and women, and their location in a wider world of sound and movement in the period. It reveals a series of tensions between many radicals' deliberative practices and aspirations and the conventions and practices in which their behaviour remained embedded. Exploring these relationships and pressures reveals the fractured world of London society and politics, dramatically illuminating both the changing fortunes of radical men and women, and the intriguing uncertainties that drove some of the government's repressive policies.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Figures and Tables
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Politics and Privacy
• 2 Disagreement and Deliberation
• 3 Plurality: Women's Circles in London
• 4 Radical Literary Women
• 5 Gender and Deliberative Equality
• 6 Negotiating Equality
• 7 A Private Affair
• 8 Music and Movement
• Conclusion: Life during Wartime
• Bibliography
• Index