Abstract
ABSTRACT William Hone (1780-1842) is famous today for his successful defense against charges of blasphemy and sedition in 1817, for his illustrated post-Peterloo satirical pamphlets, and for his antiquarian work in the later 1820s. It was his acquittals in the 1817 trials, however, that made Hone a hero to the radical/reformist movements of the day and that provided the foundation for Hone’s later work. The present essay steps back from the trials to examine Hone’s writing and publishing activity in the months and years just before the trials. In the publications from 1815 and 1816, the essay traces the development of Hone’s political rhetoric and the genesis of the comic, parodic, and satirical genres that enabled him to reach a rapidly expanding reading public.
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