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Illustrations; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. 'A New Area in OurHistory': 1. The people's Enlightenment: the radical diffusion of knowledgein the late eighteenth century; 2. Writing for their country: the plebeianpublic sphere in the 1790s; 3. The pax femina? Hannah More,counter-revolution, and the politics of female agency; Part II. 'VirtuousPublic Excitement': 4. The Palladium of liberty: radical journalism andrepression in the postwar era; 5. 'Democratic fervour and journalascendancy': popular culture and the 'unstamped' wars of the 1830s; Part III.A Literature of Their Own: 6. The Chartist revolution; 7. Fathers of thecheap press or 'able speculators'? Edward Lloyd and George W. M. Reynolds; 8.The rights and wrongs of women; 9. Acts of oblivion: 1848 and after.