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The Laughter of Triumph - William Hone and the Fight for the Free Press (Hardcover, Main)
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The Laughter of Triumph - William Hone and the Fight for the Free Press (Hardcover, Main)
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William Hone is the forgotten hero of the British Press. In 1817 he
was compelled to defend himself against a government determined to
enforce censorship. His fellow journalists, opposition MPs and the
ministers believed that a verdict against Hone would silence all
critical voices. It was a show trial, and Hone - a self-educated
and obscure Fleet Street journalist who had to defend himself
against the Lord Chief Justice and the Attorney General and in
front of a jury hand-picked by the ministry - was the underdog, a
supposedly easy victim for the state. Hone's crime was ridiculing
the government. He was a noted satirist, who used laughter as a
weapon to destroy censorship. His humour captured the imagination
of the public; his satires sold in the hundreds of thousands. They
were symbols of resistance for an angry public and were genuinely
feared by his enemies. The Laughter of Triumph looks at the history
of the struggle for free expression against repressive laws through
the life of William Hone. Could the state push the law so far that
humour was a crime? Or was it the only way to subvert censorship?
As Hone implored his jury on the second day of his trials, 'Is a
laugh treason? Surely not.'
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