The Poetics of the Swinish Multitude: British radicalism in the age of the French Revolution, 1792-1795 Advisors: Christopher L. Brown (Columbia), Paul Keenan (LSE) “A deputation from one of the popular societies of France endeavouring to persuade John Bull that he can do better without a head than with one!” (British Museum, Satires 8490, in Isaac Cruikshank 1794).