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The Press and Radical Expression: Structure and Dissemination

This chapter argues that, on the evidence of the content and intention of this range of radical periodicals, the key distinguishing element was that of social class. In order to demonstrate this innovative aspect of print culture, it explores explore how these publications created identities of class as well as propagandizing politically on behalf of new readers with a particular focus on the language used. To this extent, the radical press marked both a continuity as well as a rupture with previous traditions of the press: continuity in the claims of the press as a force that eroded the traditional hierarchies of information flow, claims which had accompanied print as a technology since its introduction in to Western Europe; rupture in that the press had hitherto been incapable of generating a lexicon of appeal to anything other than an elite political or mercantile audience. The radical form of advocacy that the radical press launched was not long in the ascendancy. Its disruptive impact was dramatically reduced when many of its claims and much of its rhetoric were subsumed within a mainstream popular press, responding reflexively as it claimed to incorporate the interests of the ‘people’ in its own coverage.