Research Catalog

Title

The politics of regicide in England, 1760-1850 : troublesome subjects / Steve Poole.

Author

Poole, Steve, 1957-

Publication

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2000.

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Details

Description

viii, 232 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"This 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." "In its reconstruction of the mentalities of such unsuccessful and forgotten Royal 'assassins' as Margaret Nicholson (who attempted to stab George III outside St. James' Palace), James Hadfield (who fired a pistol at George III during a performance at Drury Lane theatre), and Dennis Collins (a one-legged sailor, who threw a stone at the head of William IV), this 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."--Jacket.

Subjects

• Monarchy
• Regicides
• Great Britain
• 1700-1899
• History
• Great Britain > History > 19th century
• Great Britain > History > 18th century
• Great Britain > Politics and government > 19th century
• Great Britain > Politics and government > 18th century
• Politics and government
• Monarchy > Public opinion
• Regicides > Great Britain > History > 19th century
• Regicides > Great Britain > History > 18th century
• Monarchy > Great Britain > Public opinion > History > 19th century
• Monarchy > Great Britain > Public opinion > History > 18th century
• Monarchy > Great Britain > History > 19th century
• Monarchy > Great Britain > History > 18th century

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-225) and index.

Contents

Introduction: monarchy, contractualism and history -- The Crown and the secular magic of petition -- Monarchy and the policing of insanity -- The madness of Margaret Nicholson -- Treason compassed: popular mobilisation and physicality in the 1790s -- Lunacy and politics at fin de siècle, 1800-3 -- The potatoes speak for themselves: regicide, radicalism and George IV, 1811-30 -- Collins in context: William IV, affability and the reform crisis, 1830-37 -- Monarchy goes private: Peel's Protection Act and the retreat from approachability, 1837-50.

ISBN

• 0719050359
• 9780719050350

OCLC

• ocm44915199
• 44915199
• SCSB-14103193

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library