ABSTRACT

John Fairburn's London firm published cheap print of many kinds, though often with a reformist political bent, over half a century from the 1790s. Among this prolific output was a poem entitled The Field of Waterloo in the year of that event. In price and address, however, this was somewhat of an outlier in their mass of sixpenny pamphlets. This essay examines the rhetorical and stylistic features of this pamphlet and its several contexts in the ongoing paper war over the French Revolution and its Napoleonic and post-Napoleonic aftermath. These contexts include the formation of a distinctive plebeian modernity, Fairburn’s usual stock in trade, as a form of cultural citizenship grounding claims to the political franchise.

摘要

约翰·费尔伯恩 (John Fairburn) 的伦敦公司出版了多种廉价印刷品，尽管通常带有改良主义的政治倾向，距 1790 年代已超过半个世纪。在这一多产的作品中，有一首诗题为那一年的滑铁卢场。然而，在价格和地址方面，这在他们大量的六便士小册子中有点异常。本文考察了这本小册子的修辞和文体特征，以及它在围绕法国大革命及其拿破仑和后拿破仑后果正在进行的纸上战争中的几个背景。这些背景包括独特的平民现代性的形成，费尔伯恩在贸易中的惯常做法，作为一种文化公民的形式，以政治特权为基础。