UID:
edocfu_9959246055302883
Format:
1 online resource (241 pages)
Edition:
First digital paperback edition.
ISBN:
1-5261-3061-0
Content:
This lively and accessible book reappraises the often complex relationship between British monarchs and some of their more troublesome subjects in the 'age of revolutions'. By exposing a rationale behind the efforts of the mad and the politically disaffected to intrude upon, assault or pester kings and queens from George III to Victoria, the author casts new light upon the contested languages of constitutionalism, contract theory and the rights of petition. The Hanoverian dynasty sought security from republicanism during the 1790s by reinventing itself as an affable, domestic, flexible and solicitous institution. But majesty and approachability were to prove uneasy bedfellows, and popular frustrations over unanswered petitions could provoke serious personal moments of crisis. In its detailed reconstruction of the mentalities of such unsuccessful and forgotten Royal 'assassins' as Margaret Nicholson, James Hadfield and Dennis Collins, this unique and pioneering study of monarchical history from below will interest the specialist and general reader alike, and provoke fresh controversy over the viability of monarchies in the modern world.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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First published by Manchester University Press 2000. First digital paperback edition published 2012.
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9 Monarchy goes private: Peel's Protection Act and the retreat fromapproachability, 1837-50Oxford, Francis and Bean; Interpretation and punishment; Peel's Royal Protection Act, 1842; The Crown and Government Security Act, 1848; An English queen's castle is her home: privacy, intrusion andthe early Victorian monarchy; 10 Conclusion; Select bibliography; Index
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Aftermath6 Lunacy and politics at fin de siecle, 1800-3; Cheating death twice, 15 May 1800; The Hadfield Act; An epidemic of lunatics: troublesome subjects after Hadfield,1800-2; The guards' plot of 1802: Despard and king killing; 7 The potatoes speak for themselves: regicide, radicalism andGeorge IV, 1811-30; Resistance rehearsed; Resistance reconsidered; Peterloo and beyond; 8 Collins in context: William IV, affability and the reform crisis,1830-37; Affability and the citizen King; The case of Dennis Collins, 1832; Politics and the patriot King
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3 Monarchy and the policing of insanityBow Street and the security of the monarch; Prosecuting troublesome subjects; 4 The madness of Margaret Nicholson; Treason negated: Nicholson and the familial nation; Some contexts: Damiens, Byng, Tyrie and Gordon; Madness constructed; Nicholson and the public; Nicholson and petitioning; 5 Treason compassed: popular mobilisation and physicality in the1790s; Madness, law and the levelling stone of John Frith, 1790; Political plots and constructive treason: the LCS, petitioningand resistance; My Lord, I have been shot at!' The St James's Park riot, 1795
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THE POLITICS OF REGICIDE IN ENGLAND, 1760-185O; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: monarchy, contractualism and history; Monarchy and the historical imagination; Constitutional contract theory and the Whig tradition ineighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England; 2 The Crown and the secular magic of petition; Petition and the secular divinity of 'the touch'; Petitioning the throne in custom and practice; Early murmurs of discontent: popular resistance to George IIIfrom Wilkes to Sayre
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7190-8746-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7190-5035-9
Language:
English
Keywords:
History.
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