1. 6HUM0400: The Politics of Parliamentary Reform Lecture 4: Responses to the French Revolution

2. Structure of the lecture
object of the week: the cap of liberty
impact of the French revolution
changes after 1792
historiography
the linguistic turn and the politics of language and culture
What happened to the reform campaign in parliament?

3. Phrygian cap, Bonnet Rouge, or the ‘Cap of Liberty’
National Maritime Museum
Marianne
American one cent coin, 1794
Wilkes bowl, Williamsberg collection, US

4. Other examples of caps of liberty [this time, non satirical]
a Wedgwood cameo, c.1790
British Museum, 1853,
Spencean coin, late 1790s

5. James Gillray, ‘The Tree of Liberty, with the Devil tempting John Bull’ 1798
‘Dumourier dining in State at St. James’,
1795

6. James Gillray, ‘London Corresponding Society Alarm’d’, 1798

7. Map of reform societies in Britain, 1797

8. Thomas Paine and The Rights of Man (1791-2)

9. Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)

10. James Gillray, ‘The Zenith of French Glory: the Pinnacle of Liberty,’ February 1793

11. James Gillray, ‘In Fashion before Ease; or, A good Constitution sacrificed for a Fantastick Form’ (1793)

12. Thomas Rowlandson, ‘The Contrast: Which is Best?’ (1792)

13. Historiography Whig Marxist JCD Clark Dickinson and Royle
Debate about how repressive Pitt’s legislation was = ‘reign of terror’?
Debate about whether Britain faced the threat of revolution
Roger Wells and Marianne Elliot
Mark Philp - ‘vulgar conservatism’
Linda Colley - Britons

14. The ‘linguistic turn’ and the politics of language and culture
James Epstein, Patrick Joyce, James Vernon = the ‘constitutionalist idiom’
James Epstein, Nicholas Rogers, Robert Poole, Frank O’Gorman = ritual and symbol = dinners, feasts, festivals, banners, the cap of liberty.