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Revolution and Romanticism
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A facsimile reprint in the Revolution & Romanticism series chosen and introduced by Jonathan Wordsworth ISBN 1 85477 187 6 174 x 110mm 62 pages |
HANNAH MORE Village Politics 1793 with The enormous working-class sale of Paine’s Rights of Man Part I was met on the right both by censorship and by the promotion of popular literature dedicated to political stability. Village Politics urges the working man: ‘study to be quiet, work with your hands, and mind your own business’. The Cheap Repository tracts, which began to appear two years later, had similar aims but in the framework of religious renewal. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain, celebrating piety, poverty and simplicity, was one of the most popular; first published in 1795, it is here reproduced in a more legible text of the 1820s. £21 $35 The sublime and immortal publication of the Cheap Repository I hear of from every quarter of the globe. To the West Indies I have sent shiploads of them. They are read with avidity in Sierra Leone, and I hope our pious Scotch missionaries will introduce them into Asia. |
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