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By John Mullan,Christopher Reid

This booklet is a gently annotated collection of eighteenth-century writings approximately pop culture. throughout the eighteenth century, pop culture assumed a unusual value. within the early a part of the century, low and high cultures frequently collided. Later within the century, politeness increasingly more required the distancing of genteel from vulgar amusements. This assortment rediscovers a few of the energies of the low and the vulgar within the interval via reading specific subject matters (crime, spiritual enthusiasm, well known politics, for instance) and telling specific tales (the occupation of a infamous legal, the exploits of a spiritual sect, John Wilkes and the crowd). It additionally illustrates how the very proposal of pop culture was once shaped within the interval, offering examples of the ways that it used to be mentioned either through those that have been afraid of it and those that have been fascinated with it.

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