Radical Satire and Print Culture 1790-1822

• Introduction - "The potatoes speak for themselves"; advertising, politics and parody 1710-1780' Eaton, Spence and modes of radical subversion in the Revolutionary Era; radicals and the law - blasphemous libels and the three trials of William Hone; radical puffing - parodic advertising and newspapers; "The Political House that Jack Built" - children's publishing and political satire; conclusion - satire, radicalism and radical Romanticism. Appendix: a transcription of the original manuscript version of "The Late John Wilkes's Catechism of a Ministerial Member".

Marcus Wood's book is an important addition to recent work on popular radicalism in the romantic period...uncovering of a "satirical inheritance" is central to his iportant argument about the historical self-conciousness of radical culture...There is no doubting his claim to have stressed the daring and even joyous nature of much radical propaganda and to have examined that work in its own terms and not as a poor cousin to the canon. That job has been carried out with an admirable combination of enthusiasm and precision.