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William Cobbett and Rural Popular Culture (Paperback, Revised)
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William Cobbett and Rural Popular Culture (Paperback, Revised)
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This is the first rural and cultural study of the great English
countryman William Cobbett (1763-1835). It binds Cobbett's radical
career to his rural heritage and to the experiences and politics of
agricultural workers during the early nineteenth century. As a
radical, Cobbett's first quest was to represent the hardships of
the labouring poor, and he adopted the labourers' cultural
experiences and class consciousness as the basis of his political
platform. He revolutionized press history by joining the 'pedlar's
pack', from where he dispensed his two-penny broadsheets along with
other varieties of popular literature. The rural labourers
understood Cobbett because he articulated their beliefs and values
as expressed in their own folksongs and broadside ballads. They
embraced Cobbett as a radical leader and as an educator, heeding
his moral instruction, his treatises on cottage economy, and his
prescriptions on the recovery of Old England. Cobbett lived and
moved among the labourers, and knew their political or economic
grievances; thus long before the 'Captain Swing' rising he forecast
the date and patterns of the revolt. His predictions came to pass
and he became the single most important leader of the insurrection.
His position of authority in the villages carried him forward in
the cause of the Great Reform Bill and the Old Poor Law, so that by
the end of his eventful career he was the sole public exponent of
the cottage charter. This is a major and original work on Cobbett,
and represents a breakthrough in the study of rural popular culture
and in Cobbett scholarship. It will appeal strongly to a wide range
of social and political historians, and have much value for all
those interested in the language of class, the evolution of the
English language, and the history of journalism.
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