Ian Newman is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, and a fellow of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, where he specializes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British and Irish literature. He has co-edited Charles Dibdin and Late Georgian Culture (2018) with Oskar Cox Jensen and David Kennerley, and his work has appeared in Studies in English Literature, European Romantic Review, Eighteenth-Century Studies, and Studies in Romanticism.

• Part I. Tavern Space: 1. Introduction; 2. London tavern: Edmund Burke, the East India Company and literary men; 3. Crown and anchor dreams: sedition in the Strand; Part II. Tavern Genres: 4. Political ballads: Captain Morris and the convivial Whigs; 5. Anacreontic odes: drink poetry and the politics of pleasure; 6. Bawdy and lyrical ballads: Wordsworth and the ballad debates of the 1790s; 7. Toasting: political speech, convivial art; 8. Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

'At the opening of this fascinating study, Ian Newman assures us, with nimble irony, that 'I have had more fun researching and writing this book than accords with the usual image of academic pointy-headed severity'. Yet for all its self-deprecation, this is a learned account that sets about tracing such intricacies as 18th-century state surveillance, the tensions between feminised 'fashionable sociability' and 'the masculine commercialized politics of clubs and coffeehouses', and 'the pleasure of politics and the politics of pleasure, and how they gave shape to ideas about literature'.' Peter J. Smith, The Times Higher Education

Ian Newman is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, and a fellow of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, where he specializes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British and Irish literature. He has co-edited Charles Dibdin and Late Georgian Culture (2018) with Oskar Cox Jensen and David Kennerley, and his work has appeared in Studies in English Literature, European Romantic Review, Eighteenth-Century Studies, and Studies in Romanticism.

• Part I. Tavern Space: 1. Introduction; 2. London tavern: Edmund Burke, the East India Company and literary men; 3. Crown and anchor dreams: sedition in the Strand; Part II. Tavern Genres: 4. Political ballads: Captain Morris and the convivial Whigs; 5. Anacreontic odes: drink poetry and the politics of pleasure; 6. Bawdy and lyrical ballads: Wordsworth and the ballad debates of the 1790s; 7. Toasting: political speech, convivial art; 8. Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

'At the opening of this fascinating study, Ian Newman assures us, with nimble irony, that 'I have had more fun researching and writing this book than accords with the usual image of academic pointy-headed severity'. Yet for all its self-deprecation, this is a learned account that sets about tracing such intricacies as 18th-century state surveillance, the tensions between feminised 'fashionable sociability' and 'the masculine commercialized politics of clubs and coffeehouses', and 'the pleasure of politics and the politics of pleasure, and how they gave shape to ideas about literature'.' Peter J. Smith, The Times Higher Education

Ian Newman is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, and a fellow of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, where he specializes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British and Irish literature. He has co-edited Charles Dibdin and Late Georgian Culture (2018) with Oskar Cox Jensen and David Kennerley, and his work has appeared in Studies in English Literature, European Romantic Review, Eighteenth-Century Studies, and Studies in Romanticism.

• Part I. Tavern Space: 1. Introduction; 2. London tavern: Edmund Burke, the East India Company and literary men; 3. Crown and anchor dreams: sedition in the Strand; Part II. Tavern Genres: 4. Political ballads: Captain Morris and the convivial Whigs; 5. Anacreontic odes: drink poetry and the politics of pleasure; 6. Bawdy and lyrical ballads: Wordsworth and the ballad debates of the 1790s; 7. Toasting: political speech, convivial art; 8. Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

'At the opening of this fascinating study, Ian Newman assures us, with nimble irony, that 'I have had more fun researching and writing this book than accords with the usual image of academic pointy-headed severity'. Yet for all its self-deprecation, this is a learned account that sets about tracing such intricacies as 18th-century state surveillance, the tensions between feminised 'fashionable sociability' and 'the masculine commercialized politics of clubs and coffeehouses', and 'the pleasure of politics and the politics of pleasure, and how they gave shape to ideas about literature'.' Peter J. Smith, The Times Higher Education