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Commemorating Peterloo : Violence, Resilience and Claim-making during the Romantic Era / Michael Demson, Regina Hewitt.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism : ECSRPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (312 p.) : 15 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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  • 9781474428569
  • 9781474428583
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  • 942.073 23//engeng
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Peterloo, Ambivalence and Commemorative Culture -- 2. The Sounds of Peterloo -- 3. Henry Hunt’s White Hat: The Long Tradition of Mute Sedition -- 4. Stagin g Protest and Repression: Guy Fawkes in Post-Peterloo Performance -- 5. Respon ses to Peterloo in Scotland, 1819–1822 -- 6. ‘The Most Portentous Event in Modern History’: Irelan d Before and After the Peterloo Massacre -- 7. Political Suicide: Castlereagh, Rebellion and Self-Directed Violence -- 8. William Cobbett, ‘Resurrection Man’: The Peterloo Massacre and the Bones of Tom Paine -- 9. The Church and Peterloo -- 10. ‘Refor m or Convulsion’: Jeremy Bentham and the Peterloo Massacre -- 11. Wordsw orth after Peterloo: The Persistence of War in The River Duddon . . . and other Poems -- 12. Shelle y’s Poetry and Suffering -- Index
Summary: Reflections on the Bicentenary of the 1819 Massacre of Reformers in ManchesterProvides a multi-perspectival, historical revaluation of the violence of PeterlooDraws on contemporary theorizations of violence by Judith Butler, Slavoj Zizek and Rob Nixon to account for the cultural factors leading to PeterlooSupplements treatments of Peterloo centering on English history with attention to the significance of that event from Scottish, Irish and North American perspectivesTwo hundred years after the massacre of protestors in Manchester, known as Peterloo, distinguished scholars of Romantic-era literature join together in this commemorative volume to assess the implications of the violence. Contributors explore how attitudes toward violence and the claims of people to participate in government were reflected and revised in the verbal and visual culture of the time. Their analyses provide fresh insights into cultural engagement as a means of resisting oppression and a sign of the resilience of humanity in facing threats and force.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Peterloo, Ambivalence and Commemorative Culture -- 2. The Sounds of Peterloo -- 3. Henry Hunt’s White Hat: The Long Tradition of Mute Sedition -- 4. Stagin g Protest and Repression: Guy Fawkes in Post-Peterloo Performance -- 5. Respon ses to Peterloo in Scotland, 1819–1822 -- 6. ‘The Most Portentous Event in Modern History’: Irelan d Before and After the Peterloo Massacre -- 7. Political Suicide: Castlereagh, Rebellion and Self-Directed Violence -- 8. William Cobbett, ‘Resurrection Man’: The Peterloo Massacre and the Bones of Tom Paine -- 9. The Church and Peterloo -- 10. ‘Refor m or Convulsion’: Jeremy Bentham and the Peterloo Massacre -- 11. Wordsw orth after Peterloo: The Persistence of War in The River Duddon . . . and other Poems -- 12. Shelle y’s Poetry and Suffering -- Index

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Reflections on the Bicentenary of the 1819 Massacre of Reformers in ManchesterProvides a multi-perspectival, historical revaluation of the violence of PeterlooDraws on contemporary theorizations of violence by Judith Butler, Slavoj Zizek and Rob Nixon to account for the cultural factors leading to PeterlooSupplements treatments of Peterloo centering on English history with attention to the significance of that event from Scottish, Irish and North American perspectivesTwo hundred years after the massacre of protestors in Manchester, known as Peterloo, distinguished scholars of Romantic-era literature join together in this commemorative volume to assess the implications of the violence. Contributors explore how attitudes toward violence and the claims of people to participate in government were reflected and revised in the verbal and visual culture of the time. Their analyses provide fresh insights into cultural engagement as a means of resisting oppression and a sign of the resilience of humanity in facing threats and force.

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In English.

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