The spirit of despotism : invasions of privacy in the 1790s / John Barrell.

How was the social and cultural life of Britain affected by the fear that the French Revolution would spread across the channel? In his brilliant new book, John Barrell argues that the fear of revolution produced a culture of surveillance and suspicion which penetrated every aspect of private life....

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Main Author: Barrell, John
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Series:OUP E-Books.
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