Böcker av John Belchem

A wide-ranging overview of radicalism throughout the "long" 19th century, from the days of "Wilkes and Liberty" to the aftermath of World War I, this study offers a critical introduction to new linguistic and cultural approaches. It studies both working-class and middle-class radicalism.

The argument is that language is a broad-based means of communication with contested and consensual meanings, and that such meanings should be revealed and evaluated by historical contextualization. The book aims to show the connection between the linguistic and the social should be re-examined.