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Writings of the Luddites (Paperback)
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Named for their probably mythical leader, Ned Ludd, the Luddites
were a group of social agitators in nineteenth-century Britain who
tried to prevent the mechanization of cloth factories, which they
blamed for increased unemployment, poverty, and hunger in
industrial centers. Though famous for their often violent protests,
the Luddites also engaged in literary resistance in the form of
poems, proclamations, petitions, songs, and letters. In Writings of
the Luddites, Kevin Binfield collects complete texts written by
Luddites or Luddite sympathizers between 1811 and 1816, adds
detailed notes, and organizes the documents by the three primary
regions of origin: the Midlands, Northwestern England, and
Yorkshire. Binfield's extensive introduction provides a historical
overview of the Luddites and their activities, explores their
rhetorical strategies, and illuminates their literary context.
Written for the most part from a collective point of view, the
texts themselves range from judicious to bloodthirsty in tone and
reveal a fascination both with legal forms of address and with the
more personal forms of Romantic literature, as well as with the
recent political revolutions in France and America.
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