Abstract
Discusses a series of five newspaper letters by Thomas McGrugar (1751-1810), published in an Edinburgh newspaper the Caledonian Mercury, which urged increased representation of the Scottish burghs in the U.K. parliament, and argues that in them McGrugar used print culture to create an alternative political forum to existing political structures.
Recommended Citation
Benchimol, Alex
(2021)
"Thomas McGrugar’s ‘Letters of Zeno’: Patriotic Print & Constitutional Improvement in the Caledonian Mercury, 1782-1783,"
Studies in Scottish Literature:
Vol. 47:
Iss.
1, 67–90.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol47/iss1/7