Jon Mee
Biographic Data
| ID | 1106701 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jon Mee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jon |
| FAMILY NAME | Mee |
| SIGNATURE | MEE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9644-4831 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Cambridge History of the British Essay
From ancient influences on the essay as a form of rhetoric to the Irish essay as performance, from British imperial propaganda to African postcolonial resistance, from political pamphlets to the rise of literary professionalism, from gastronomy to ecocriticism, The Cambridge History of the British Essay offers the first authoritative single-volume history of the form's development within the British literary tradition. It restores to the contempo…
Remediating The 1820s
Remediating the 1820s
The Spirit of Controversy
Coriolanus
Coriolanus has of late been repeatedly acted here. Shakespear has in this play shewn himself well versed in history and state-affairs. Coriolanus is a store-house of political common-places. Any one who studies it may save himself the trouble of reading Burke’ s Reflections or Paine’ s Rights of Man, or the Debates in both Houses of Parliament since the French Revolution or our own. The arguments for and against aristocracy or democracy, on the p…
On the Pleasure of Hating
There is a spider crawling along the matted floor of the room where I sit (not the one which has been so well allegorised in the admirable Lines to a Spider ,* but another of the same edifying breed) — he runs with heedless, hurried haste, he hobbles awkwardly towards me, he stops — he sees the giant shadow before him, and, at a loss whether to retreat or proceed, meditates his huge foe — but as I do not start up and seize upon the straggling cai…
Satire in the Age of the French Revolution
The idea of a British ‘debate’ on the French Revolution inadequately describes the culture wars of the 1790s, where satire remained a key weapon. Scurrilous works such as Charles Pigott’s Jockey Club (1792) harnessed libellous newspaper innuendo to republican politics. Many who agreed with its politics blanched at its method, but attacks on the royal family and William Pitt abounded, especially in the crisis year of 1795. Prosecutions for libel r…
The Revolutionary Decade
This chapter examines the literature of the controversy over the French Revolution. It discusses the polemical texts that contributed directly to the controversy associated with Burke, Godwin, Paine, and Wollstonecraft, but also the culture wars that perpetuated it in terms of the novel, poetry, and the theatre. In the 1790s, some of the great names associated with Romanticism came to literary maturity, Blake, Coleridge, and Wordsworth among them…
Print, Publicity, and Popular Radicalism in the 1790s
Jon Mee explores the popular democratic movement that emerged in the London of the 1790s in response to the French Revolution. Central to the movement's achievement was the creation of an idea of 'the people' brought into being through print and publicity. Radical clubs rose and fell in the face of the hostile attentions of government. They were sustained by a faith in the press as a form of 'print magic', but confidence in the liberating potenti…
A Reading People?’
This essay is primarily concerned with two Australian societies of the 1820s: the Philosophical Society of Australasia, 1821-22, and the Useful Book Society, around 1828 to 1831. The problems faced by both societies were exacerbated by the geographical isolation of New South Wales, but the 'tyranny of distance' should not disguise the fact that they were an extreme instance of the general case of the relative scarcity of books directing human beh…
The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
The French Revolution ignited the biggest debate on politics and society in Britain since the Civil War 150 years earlier. The public controversy lasted from the initial, positive reaction to French events in 1789 to the outlawing of the radical societies in 1799. This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. It contains thirt…
Conversable WorldsLiterature, Contention, and Community 1762 to 1830
This book addresses the emergence of the idea of ‘the conversation of culture’. Around 1700 a new commercial society was emerging that thought of its values as the product of exchanges between citizens. Conversation became increasingly important as a model and as a practice for how community could be created. A welter of publications, in periodical essays, in novels, and in poetry, enjoined the virtues of conversation. These publications were ent…
The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740–1830
This 2004 volume offers an introduction to British literature that challenges the traditional divide between eighteenth-century and Romantic studies. Contributors explore the development of literary genres and modes through a period of rapid change. They show how literature was shaped by historical factors including the development of the book trade, the rise of literary criticism and the expansion of commercial society and empire. The first part…
The Cambridge companion to English literature from 1740 to 1830
Not at home in English
The 1990s witnessed a boom in Indian writing in English. Recent postcolonial literary criticism has praised its cosmopolitanism for questioning essentialist notions of national identity. Others are critical of the writing for pandering to a globalized marketplace for literature and failing to assimilate the social realities of India. The issue is complicated by the role of the English language itself, since it has been a tool of colonialism (and …
After midnight
1998). After midnight: The Indian novel in English of the 80s and 90s. Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 127-141
Apocalypse and Ambivalence
Research Article| July 01 1996 Apocalypse and Ambivalence: The Politics of Millenarianism in the 1790s Jon Mee Jon Mee Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1996) 95 (3): 671–697. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-95-3-671 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jon Mee; Apocalypse and Ambivalence: The Politics of Millenarianism in the 1790s. S…
Dark Figures in the Desired Country
Conversable WorldsLiterature, Contention, and Community 1762 to 1830
This book addresses the emergence of the idea of ‘the conversation of culture’. Around 1700 a new commercial society was emerging that thought of its values as the product of exchanges between citizens. Conversation became increasingly important as a model and as a practice for how community could be created. A welter of publications, in periodical essays, in novels, and in poetry, enjoined the virtues of conversation. These publications were ent…
Print, Publicity, and Popular Radicalism in the 1790s
Jon Mee explores the popular democratic movement that emerged in the London of the 1790s in response to the French Revolution. Central to the movement's achievement was the creation of an idea of 'the people' brought into being through print and publicity. Radical clubs rose and fell in the face of the hostile attentions of government. They were sustained by a faith in the press as a form of 'print magic', but confidence in the liberating potenti…
After midnight
1998). After midnight: The Indian novel in English of the 80s and 90s. Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 127-141
On the Pleasure of Hating
There is a spider crawling along the matted floor of the room where I sit (not the one which has been so well allegorised in the admirable Lines to a Spider ,* but another of the same edifying breed) — he runs with heedless, hurried haste, he hobbles awkwardly towards me, he stops — he sees the giant shadow before him, and, at a loss whether to retreat or proceed, meditates his huge foe — but as I do not start up and seize upon the straggling cai…
Dark Figures in the Desired Country
Apocalypse and Ambivalence
Research Article| July 01 1996 Apocalypse and Ambivalence: The Politics of Millenarianism in the 1790s Jon Mee Jon Mee Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1996) 95 (3): 671–697. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-95-3-671 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jon Mee; Apocalypse and Ambivalence: The Politics of Millenarianism in the 1790s. S…
After midnight
1998). After midnight: The Indian novel in English of the 80s and 90s. Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 127-141
Not at home in English
The 1990s witnessed a boom in Indian writing in English. Recent postcolonial literary criticism has praised its cosmopolitanism for questioning essentialist notions of national identity. Others are critical of the writing for pandering to a globalized marketplace for literature and failing to assimilate the social realities of India. The issue is complicated by the role of the English language itself, since it has been a tool of colonialism (and …
The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740–1830
This 2004 volume offers an introduction to British literature that challenges the traditional divide between eighteenth-century and Romantic studies. Contributors explore the development of literary genres and modes through a period of rapid change. They show how literature was shaped by historical factors including the development of the book trade, the rise of literary criticism and the expansion of commercial society and empire. The first part…
The Cambridge companion to English literature from 1740 to 1830
The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
The French Revolution ignited the biggest debate on politics and society in Britain since the Civil War 150 years earlier. The public controversy lasted from the initial, positive reaction to French events in 1789 to the outlawing of the radical societies in 1799. This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. It contains thirt…
Conversable WorldsLiterature, Contention, and Community 1762 to 1830
This book addresses the emergence of the idea of ‘the conversation of culture’. Around 1700 a new commercial society was emerging that thought of its values as the product of exchanges between citizens. Conversation became increasingly important as a model and as a practice for how community could be created. A welter of publications, in periodical essays, in novels, and in poetry, enjoined the virtues of conversation. These publications were ent…
A Reading People?’
This essay is primarily concerned with two Australian societies of the 1820s: the Philosophical Society of Australasia, 1821-22, and the Useful Book Society, around 1828 to 1831. The problems faced by both societies were exacerbated by the geographical isolation of New South Wales, but the 'tyranny of distance' should not disguise the fact that they were an extreme instance of the general case of the relative scarcity of books directing human beh…
Print, Publicity, and Popular Radicalism in the 1790s
Jon Mee explores the popular democratic movement that emerged in the London of the 1790s in response to the French Revolution. Central to the movement's achievement was the creation of an idea of 'the people' brought into being through print and publicity. Radical clubs rose and fell in the face of the hostile attentions of government. They were sustained by a faith in the press as a form of 'print magic', but confidence in the liberating potenti…
The Revolutionary Decade
This chapter examines the literature of the controversy over the French Revolution. It discusses the polemical texts that contributed directly to the controversy associated with Burke, Godwin, Paine, and Wollstonecraft, but also the culture wars that perpetuated it in terms of the novel, poetry, and the theatre. In the 1790s, some of the great names associated with Romanticism came to literary maturity, Blake, Coleridge, and Wordsworth among them…
Satire in the Age of the French Revolution
The idea of a British ‘debate’ on the French Revolution inadequately describes the culture wars of the 1790s, where satire remained a key weapon. Scurrilous works such as Charles Pigott’s Jockey Club (1792) harnessed libellous newspaper innuendo to republican politics. Many who agreed with its politics blanched at its method, but attacks on the royal family and William Pitt abounded, especially in the crisis year of 1795. Prosecutions for libel r…
The Spirit of Controversy
Coriolanus
Coriolanus has of late been repeatedly acted here. Shakespear has in this play shewn himself well versed in history and state-affairs. Coriolanus is a store-house of political common-places. Any one who studies it may save himself the trouble of reading Burke’ s Reflections or Paine’ s Rights of Man, or the Debates in both Houses of Parliament since the French Revolution or our own. The arguments for and against aristocracy or democracy, on the p…
On the Pleasure of Hating
There is a spider crawling along the matted floor of the room where I sit (not the one which has been so well allegorised in the admirable Lines to a Spider ,* but another of the same edifying breed) — he runs with heedless, hurried haste, he hobbles awkwardly towards me, he stops — he sees the giant shadow before him, and, at a loss whether to retreat or proceed, meditates his huge foe — but as I do not start up and seize upon the straggling cai…
Remediating The 1820s
Remediating the 1820s
The Cambridge History of the British Essay
From ancient influences on the essay as a form of rhetoric to the Irish essay as performance, from British imperial propaganda to African postcolonial resistance, from political pamphlets to the rise of literary professionalism, from gastronomy to ecocriticism, The Cambridge History of the British Essay offers the first authoritative single-volume history of the form's development within the British literary tradition. It restores to the contempo…
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