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Introduction: locating a plebeian counterpublic sphere; Part I. ARhetoric of Radical Opposition: 1. Party, corruption and politicalopposition; 2. Representing the people: the press and parliamentary reform;3. Beyond corruption: independence, personality, egotism; 4. The radicalprofession and 'the wholesale trade of sedition'; 5. Countersystem and theends of opposition; Part II. Radical Print Culture In Periodical Form: 1.Popular radicalism in print; 2. Periodical forms in crisis; 3. A formdeformed; 4. Radical reading and radical organization; Part III. The Trialsof Radicalism: Assembling the Evidence of Reform: 1. The law of libel; 2. Thecourtroom defence as public offence; 3. Radical assembly in print; 4. 'Afair, plain and honest account'; 5 The language of fact: apocalypse withoutimagination; Part IV. Reading Cobbett's Contradictions: 1. 'The system'; 2.Writing as system and countersystem; 3. The economy of the world and thedisappearance of the writer; Part V. Leigh Hunt and the End of RadicalOpposition: 1. 'Reform of periodical writing'; 2. The antinomies ofindependent opposition: egotism and community; 3. The language of class in aprogressive public sphere; Afterword: William Hazlitt: a radical critique ofradical opposition?