How Long to Read Radical Culture: Discourse, Resistance and Surveillance, 1790-1820

How Long Does it Take to Read Radical Culture: Discourse, Resistance and Surveillance, 1790-1820?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 10 minutes to read Radical Culture: Discourse, Resistance and Surveillance, 1790-1820 by David Worrall

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Description

England was a spy culture in the years 1790 through 1820. Restriction, regulation and surveillance formed the dominant discursive context. Ultra-radical artisans developed a discourse based on the revolutionary ideology of Thomas Spence which proposed the corporate ownership of land and the overthrow of the Government by physical force. The Spenceans were considered the most radical of the political groups active during this period, with William Blake, Jeremy Bentham, and Percy Shelley the best known of those spied upon for suspected Speancean activities. This book outlines the battle between repressive seditious laws and the radicals whose weapon was the written and spoken word. David Worrall explores the discursive context of the campaigns against sedition in the 1790s, Colonel Despard's intended coup of 1802, the Spa Fields rising of 1816, the planned Bartholomew Fair insurrection of 1817 and the debacle of the 1820 Cato Street conspiracy. He recovers a lost artisan culture recorded by spies, moles and informers who infiltrated the organizations, debating clubs and taverns where radical speakers called for violent revolution, examining for the first time the speeches, conversations, songs, poems, pamphlets, letters, handbills, trials, interrogations, and arrests which constituted the resistance to the Government's regulation of discourse. Radical Culture features a sympathetic portrait of these revolutionaries gleaned almost entirely from the records of the government spies who helped put them in jail. Worrall brings to life the ultra-radicals, dramatizing what they said, how they reacted under extreme conditions of arrest or impending execution, and how the Government hounded them in their last hours of life.

How long is Radical Culture: Discourse, Resistance and Surveillance, 1790-1820?

Radical Culture: Discourse, Resistance and Surveillance, 1790-1820 by David Worrall is 186 pages long, and a total of 47,616 words.

This makes it 63% the length of the average book. It also has 58% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Radical Culture: Discourse, Resistance and Surveillance, 1790-1820 Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 20 minutes to read Radical Culture: Discourse, Resistance and Surveillance, 1790-1820 aloud.

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Radical Culture: Discourse, Resistance and Surveillance, 1790-1820 is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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