Conservative culture in the Romantic period should not be
understood merely as an effort to preserve the old regime in
Britain against the threat of revolution. Instead, conservative
thinkers and writers aimed to transform British culture and society
to achieve a stable future in contrast to the destructive upheavals
taking place in France. Kevin Gilmartin explores the literary forms
of counterrevolutionary expression in Britain, showing that while
conservative movements were often inclined to treat print culture
as a dangerously unstable and even subversive field, a whole range
of print forms - ballads, tales, dialogues, novels, critical
reviews - became central tools in the counterrevolutionary
campaign. Beginning with the pamphlet campaigns of the loyalist
Association movement and the Cheap Repository in the 1790s,
Gilmartin analyses the role of periodical reviews and anti-Jacobin
fiction in the campaign against revolution, and closes with a fresh
account of the conservative careers of Robert Southey and Samuel
Taylor Coleridge.
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