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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2014

Anna Clark*
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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1 Habermas, Jürgen, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, trans. Burger, Thomas (1962; reprint, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1989), p. 173Google Scholar; Landes, Joan, Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution (Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 1988), p. 45Google Scholar.

2 See also Finn, Margot C., After Chartism: Class and Nation in English Radical Politics, 1848–1874 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), p. 189Google Scholar.

3 Joyce, Patrick, Visions of the People: Industrial England and the Question of Class, 1840–1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), p. 27CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

4 For a notable exception, see Brewer, John, “Theater and Counter-theater in Georgian Politics: The Mock Elections at Garrat,” Radical History Review 22 (19791980): 740CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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