Unusual Suspects Pitt Reign of Alarm and the Lost Generation of the 1790s 1st edition by Kenneth Johnston 0199657807 9780199657803

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ISBN 10:  0199657807 

ISBN 13: 9780199657803

Author:  Kenneth R. Johnston 

Robespierre’s Reign of Terror spawned an evil little twin in William Pitt the Younger’s Reign of Alarm, 1792-1798. Terror begat Alarm. Many lives and careers were ruined in Britain as a result of the alarmist regime Pitt set up to suppress domestic dissent while waging his disastrous wars against republican France. Liberal young writers and intellectuals whose enthusiasm for the American and French revolutions raised hopes for Parliamentary reform at home saw their prospects blasted. Over a hundred trials for treason or sedition (more than ever before or since in British history) were staged against ‘the usual suspects’ – that is, political activists. But other, informal, vigilante means were used against the ‘unusual suspects’ of this book: jobs lost, contracts abrogated, engagements broken off, fellowships terminated, inheritances denied, and so on and on. As in the McCarthy era in 1950s America, blacklisting and rumor-mongering did as much damage as legal repression. Dozens of ‘almost famous’ writers saw their promising careers nipped in the bud: people like Helen Maria Williams, James Montgomery, William Frend, Gilbert Wakefield, John Thelwall, Joseph Priestley, Dr. Thomas Beddoes, Francis Wrangham and many others.

Unusual Suspects Pitt s Reign of Alarm and the Lost Generation of the 1790s 1st Table of contents:

PART II THE FORCES OF PUBLIC OPINION

PART III KEEPING THE UNIVERSITY AND CHURCH SAFE FROM REFORM

PART IV OTHER VOICES OTHER PLACES

PART V ENDGAMES

PART VI THE ROMANTIC POETS THE POLICE AND THE STATE OF ALARM

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