John Thelwall [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]
… and was a ‘complete church-and-king man’. 2 In the 1780s, he became strongly motivated by the attractions of literary culture, finding in the cut-and-thrust of debating societies and literary periodicals, which welcomed views of all … in the name of ‘the people’, but wrestled with difficult issues of how to create and address a ‘public’ for a democratic culture’. 9 At the core of this lifelong attempt to create a coherent democratic ‘public’ was a complex relay between …
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