Kinship, generation and community: the transmission of political ideology in radical plebeian print culture.(Critical Essay) From: Studies in Romanticism | Date: June 22, 2004| Author: Worrall, David | COPYRIGHT 2004 Boston University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

THIS ESSAY WILL ARGUE THAT PLEBEIAN RADICALISM TRANSPOSED ITSELF effortlessly across the two generations usually associated with literary Romanticism. The principal vehicle of radicalism's generation was the family. It will be shown that radical families can be identified and located even as, protean like, they re-grouped, re-formed, adapted, negotiated and struggled under successive political regimes intent on their surveillance and control. From the start of the French Revolution ...