By Joseph Bristow, Josephine McDonagh
This e-book takes a clean examine the revolutionary interventions of writers within the 19th century. From Cobbett to Dickens and George Eliot, and together with a bunch of lesser identified figures – well known novelists, poets, reporters, political activists – writers shared a dedication to exploring the potential for literature as a medium within which to visualize new and higher worlds. The essays during this quantity ask how we must always comprehend those interventions and what are their legacies within the 20th and 21st centuries? encouraged by means of the paintings of the unconventional literary pupil, the past due Sally Ledger, this quantity presents a statement at the political traditions that underpin the literature of this advanced interval, and examines the interpretive equipment which are had to comprehend them. This well timed e-book contributes to our appreciation of the novel traditions that underpin our literary previous.
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The Northern Star and Leeds General Advertiser (1837– 52), owned by former Irish MP Feargus O’Connor, was the leading Chartist newspaper. 2. ,] ‘Huzza for the Rule of the Whigs’, Northern Star, 29 July 1848: 3; this poem originally appeared in the Tory Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 64 (1848): 112–13. 3. ,] ‘The Devil and Owen O’Connelly, or the New Irish Chancellor: A Romantic Ballad’, Northern Star, 19 December 1840: 3; ‘Tom Pen’, ‘Song for the People, XXXII: A Stave about the Quack Patriot and His Repeal Delusion’, Northern Star, 10 October 1846: 3.
Cooper, ‘To the Shakesperean Brigade of Leicester Chartists’, 4. 29. For a discussion of the ways in which Cobbett uses ‘the thing’ as a way of representing a corrupt political process, see Chapter 6 of Gilmartin’s Print Politics. 30. Frye, Anatomy of Criticism, 224 31. Frye, Anatomy of Criticism, 224. 32. See Ledger, Dickens and the Popular Radical Imagination, 160. 33. Ledger, Dickens and the Popular Radical Imagination, 164. 34. Ledger, Dickens and the Popular Radical Imagination, 180; emphasis in original.
19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. NO LAUGHING MATTER: CHARTISM AND THE LIMITS OF SATIRE 35 27. Cooper, ‘To the Shakesperean Brigade of Leicester Chartists’, 4. 28. Cooper, ‘To the Shakesperean Brigade of Leicester Chartists’, 4. 29. For a discussion of the ways in which Cobbett uses ‘the thing’ as a way of representing a corrupt political process, see Chapter 6 of Gilmartin’s Print Politics. 30. Frye, Anatomy of Criticism, 224 31. Frye, Anatomy of Criticism, 224. 32. See Ledger, Dickens and the Popular Radical Imagination, 160.