Jon Mee: 6 books

Book cover of Print, Publicity, and Popular Radicalism in the 1790s
by Jon Mee
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016

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...
Book cover of The Cambridge Introduction to Charles Dickens
by Jon Mee
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010

Charles Dickens became immensely popular early on in his career as a novelist, and his appeal continues to grow with new editions prompted by recent television and film adaptations, as well as large numbers of students studying the Victorian novel. This lively and accessible introduction to Dickens...
Book cover of Letters written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
by Mary Wollstonecraft, Tone Brekke, Jon Mee
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009

'If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.' William Godwin, the author's future husband, was not alone in admiring Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, Wollstonecraft's most popular book during...
Book cover of William Blake - Songs of Innocence and of Experience
by Sarah Haggarty, Jon Mee
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013

Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794) is William Blake's best-known work, containing such familiar poems as 'London', 'Sick Rose' and 'The Tyger'. Evolving over the author's lifetime, the collection was printed by Blake himself on his own press. This Reader's Guide: • explains...
Book cover of Barnaby Rudge
by Charles Dickens, Jon Mee, Iain McCalman
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2003

'What dark history is this?' This is the question that hangs over Dickens's brooding novel of mayhem and murder in the eighteenth century. Set in London at the time of the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots, Barnaby Rudge tells a story of individuals caught up in the mindless violence of the mob. Lord George...
Book cover of William Blake - Songs of Innocence and of Experience
by Sarah Haggarty, Jon A Mee
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013

Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794) is William Blake's best-known work, containing such familiar poems as 'London', 'Sick Rose' and 'The Tyger'. Evolving over the author's lifetime, the collection was printed by Blake himself on his own press. This Reader's Guide: • explains...
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