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, Mark Philp discusses the literary radicalism of London at the time of the French Revolution and 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.
Image courtesy of interviewee. May 21, 2020