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  • 48 - ‘Radical publishing’

  • from III - SPECIALIST BOOKS AND MARKETS
  • Edited by Michael F. Suarez, SJ, University of Virginia, Michael L. Turner, Bodleian Library, Oxford
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain
    Published online:
    28 September 2010
    Print publication:
    29 October 2009, pp 834-848

  • Summary

    This chapter outlines radical publishing in terms of its form, content and economics in the first three decades of the nineteenth century. It focuses on radical publishing activity that shifted the boundaries of the book and print markets. The analysis has foregrounded authors and works which reached large audiences. Yet, it needs to be emphasized that the sheer range of authors who might be categorized as radicals is almost limitless, and takes in many of the leading lights of Romanticism. Radicalism as a publishing phenomenon was wonderfully open, and it is consequently appropriate to end on a note of speculation, rather than closure. The chapter shows how radicalism interacted with three vital growth areas in popular publishing, namely pornography, abolition and women's publishing. It is vital to understand that one explanation of the power and appeal of radical publishing lay in the ways in which it interfaced with a series of related revolutions in popular publishing.