British Periodical Press and the French Revolution 1789-99

This study challenges the conventional polarities used to describe British politics of the 1790s; Pitt versus Fox, Burke versus Paine, Church versus Dissent, ruling class versus working class, Jacobin versus anti-Jacobin. Such polarities were sedulously promoted by Pitt''s wartime government, which applied ''Jacobin'' shamelessly to all its critics and opponents, and thus foreshadowed the McCarthy...