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First published in 1999. For the first time since their appearance
in Chartist newspapers these two major radical narratives are
reprinted in a single volume. The Political Pilgrim's Progress
combines Utopian politics with Bunyanesque satire to tell the story
of the journey of Radical and his family from the City of Plunder
to the City of Reform. Sunshine and Shadow is the only serialized
novel to have been published in the Northern Star. It brings
together fictional biography and historical chronicle to form the
first truly working-class novel. Both texts offer a unique insight
into the literary achievements of the Chartist movement, and will
be a valuable and entertaining source for scholars of radical
politics. The texts are fully annotated, and the editor also
provides an introduction to each story and a bibliography of recent
scholarship.
First published in 1995. Chartism inspired a prodigious literary
output, based on its own newspapers and journals. However, while
some Chartist political writings have been reprinted, the aesthetic
texts of the movement have largely been neglected. This selection
of short stories and extracts from longer fiction aims to remedy
this situation and covers a diversity of authors, genres and
themes. Ian Haywood has written a cogent and wide-ranging review of
the Chartist movement and its literature as an introduction to this
collection of little-known and revealing stories. The diction is
divided into the following areas: the condition of England,
Ireland, revolution, women and Chartism itself. This title will be
of interest to students of history.
At its height, during the 1830s and 40s, Chartism inspired a
prodigious literary output, based on its own newspapers and
journals. While some Chartist political writings have been
reprinted, the fiction of the movement has been largely neglected.
Chartist stories represent a unique moment in literary history,
when the radical political energies of a mass movement were fused
with popular narrative forms. The result was a vital, accessible
and popular fiction, informed by an awareness that Chartism had to
forge its own brand of fiction in order to challenge the prevailing
cultural misrepresentation of the working class and radical
politics. This anthology is organised chronologically and includes
a wide range of authors and genres, with complete poems and short
stories as well as extracts from novels and other full-length works
of fiction. The stories are divided into five areas which relect
the range, scope and achievement of Chartism's intellectual and
political imagination: the condition of England; Ireland;
revolution; women and Chartism. The complete collection is set in
an analytical framework and has a long historical introduction by
the editor.
This title was first published in 2001. When the Chartist leader
Ernest Jones emerged from prison in 1850, he was determined to
capture the public's attention with a controversial and topical
novel. The result of his endeavours was the remarkable Woman's
Wrongs, a series of five tales exploring women's oppression at
every level of society from the working class to the aristocracy.
Each story presents a graphic, often harrowing account of the
social, economic and emotional victimisation of women, and taken
together the tales comprise a devastating indictment of Victorian
patriarchal attitudes and sexual inequalities. But Jones also shows
women's refusal to accept this subjugated role, and he creates some
of Victorian literature's most subversive and unruly heroines. He
draws on sensationalism, reportage, melodrama and political
analysis in order to expose the wrongs done by and to women.
This title was first published in 2001. When the Chartist leader
Ernest Jones emerged from prison in 1850, he was determined to
capture the public's attention with a controversial and topical
novel. The result of his endeavours was the remarkable Woman's
Wrongs, a series of five tales exploring women's oppression at
every level of society from the working class to the aristocracy.
Each story presents a graphic, often harrowing account of the
social, economic and emotional victimisation of women, and taken
together the tales comprise a devastating indictment of Victorian
patriarchal attitudes and sexual inequalities. But Jones also shows
women's refusal to accept this subjugated role, and he creates some
of Victorian literature's most subversive and unruly heroines. He
draws on sensationalism, reportage, melodrama and political
analysis in order to expose the wrongs done by and to women.
Romantic Period Writings 1798-1832 provides a valuable insight into
the condition of Britain in the early part of the nineteenth
century. It includes original documents from a range of disciplines
and discourses. Each section includes a scholarly introduction,
select bibliography, and annotations.
Among the material assembled in the anthology are writings by
previously neglected or under-represented women, working-class men,
black radicals, and conservative and evangelical polemicists, as
well as several unfamiliar texts by canonical writers. The writings
are organised into sections on:
* Radical Journalism
* Political Economy
* Atheism
* Nation and State
* Race and Empire
* Gender
* Literary Institutions.
While the Victorian era has been extensively covered by scholars
and critics, less attention has been given to the period that
bridges the gap to Victorianism. "Romantic Period Writings
1798-1832" provides a valuable insight into the condition of
Britain in the early part of the nineteenth century. Original
documents from a range of disciplines and discourses include
writings by previously neglected or under-represented women,
working-class men, black radicals, and conservative and evangelical
polemicists, as well as several previously neglected texts by
canonical writers. The writings are organized into sections on
Radical Journalism, Political Economy, Atheism, Nation and State,
Race and Empire, Gender and Literary Institutions. Each section
includes an introduction which contextualizes the following
selections.
At its height, during the 1830s and 40s, Chartism inspired a
prodigious literary output, based on its own newspapers and
journals. While some Chartist political writings have been
reprinted, the fiction of the movement has been largely neglected.
Chartist stories represent a unique moment in literary history,
when the radical political energies of a mass movement were fused
with popular narrative forms. The result was a vital, accessible
and popular fiction, informed by an awareness that Chartism had to
forge its own brand of fiction in order to challenge the prevailing
cultural misrepresentation of the working class and radical
politics. This anthology is organised chronologically and includes
a wide range of authors and genres, with complete poems and short
stories as well as extracts from novels and other full-length works
of fiction. The stories are divided into five areas which relect
the range, scope and achievement of Chartism's intellectual and
political imagination: the condition of England; Ireland;
revolution; women and Chartism. The complete collection is set in
an analytical framework and has a long historical introduction by
the editor.
First published in 1999. For the first time since their appearance
in Chartist newspapers these two major radical narratives are
reprinted in a single volume. The Political Pilgrim's Progress
combines Utopian politics with Bunyanesque satire to tell the story
of the journey of Radical and his family from the City of Plunder
to the City of Reform. Sunshine and Shadow is the only serialized
novel to have been published in the Northern Star. It brings
together fictional biography and historical chronicle to form the
first truly working-class novel. Both texts offer a unique insight
into the literary achievements of the Chartist movement, and will
be a valuable and entertaining source for scholars of radical
politics. The texts are fully annotated, and the editor also
provides an introduction to each story and a bibliography of recent
scholarship.
First published in 1995. Chartism inspired a prodigious literary
output, based on its own newspapers and journals. However, while
some Chartist political writings have been reprinted, the aesthetic
texts of the movement have largely been neglected. This selection
of short stories and extracts from longer fiction aims to remedy
this situation and covers a diversity of authors, genres and
themes. Ian Haywood has written a cogent and wide-ranging review of
the Chartist movement and its literature as an introduction to this
collection of little-known and revealing stories. The diction is
divided into the following areas: the condition of England,
Ireland, revolution, women and Chartism itself. This title will be
of interest to students of history.
First published in 2001. When the Chartist leader Ernest Jones
emerged from prison in 1850, he was determined to capture the
public's attention with a controversial and topical novel. The
result of his endeavours was the remarkable Woman's Wrongs, a
series of five tales exploring women's oppression at every level of
society from the working class to the aristocracy. Each story
presents a graphic, often harrowing account of the social, economic
and emotional victimization of women, and taken together the tales
comprise a devastating indictment of Victorian patriarchal
attitudes and sexual inequalities. In his substantial Introduction,
Ian Haywood places the novel in the context of Jones's career as a
Chartist author and editor, and in the wider context of the 'woman
question'. Some of the topics covered by the Introduction include:
the radical press and popular enlightenment, Jones's rivalry with
George W. M. Reynolds, and the needlewoman as radical icon. This
title will be of interest to students of history.
This book serves as a retrieval and reevaluation of a rich haul of
comic caricatures from the turbulent years between the Reform Bill
crisis of the early 1830s and the rise and fall of Chartism in the
1840s. With a telling selection of illustrations, this book deploys
the techniques of close reading and political contextualization to
demonstrate the aesthetic and ideological clout of a neglected
tranche of satirical prints and periodicals dismissed as
ineffectual by historians or distasteful by contemporaries. The
prime exhibits are the work of Robert Seymour and C.J. Grant giving
acerbic comic edge to the case for reform against class and state
oppression and the excesses of the monarchical regime under the
young Queen Victoria.
This collection of thirteen specially commissioned essays by
international scholars takes a fresh look at the profound impact of
the Peninsular War on Romantic British literature and culture. The
expertly authored chapters explore the valorization of Spain by
nineteenth-century poets such as Lord Byron, William Wordsworth,
Robert Southey, S.T. Coleridge, the Shelleys, and Felicia Hemans in
contrast to the Enlightenment-era view of Spain as a backwards
nation in decline. Topics discussed include the vision of Spain in
Gothic fiction, Spanish experiences of exile as exemplified by the
conflict between Valentin de Llanos and Joseph Blanco White, and
British women writers' approach to peninsular fiction. Spain in
British Romanticism: 1800-1840 is essential reading for scholars
and enthusiasts of Romantic literature and Spanish history.
This collection of thirteen specially commissioned essays by
international scholars takes a fresh look at the profound impact of
the Peninsular War on Romantic British literature and culture. The
expertly authored chapters explore the valorization of Spain by
nineteenth-century poets such as Lord Byron, William Wordsworth,
Robert Southey, S.T. Coleridge, the Shelleys, and Felicia Hemans in
contrast to the Enlightenment-era view of Spain as a backwards
nation in decline. Topics discussed include the vision of Spain in
Gothic fiction, Spanish experiences of exile as exemplified by the
conflict between Valentin de Llanos and Joseph Blanco White, and
British women writers' approach to peninsular fiction. Spain in
British Romanticism: 1800-1840 is essential reading for scholars
and enthusiasts of Romantic literature and Spanish history.
First published in 2001. When the Chartist leader Ernest Jones
emerged from prison in 1850, he was determined to capture the
public's attention with a controversial and topical novel. The
result of his endeavours was the remarkable Woman's Wrongs, a
series of five tales exploring women's oppression at every level of
society from the working class to the aristocracy. Each story
presents a graphic, often harrowing account of the social, economic
and emotional victimization of women, and taken together the tales
comprise a devastating indictment of Victorian patriarchal
attitudes and sexual inequalities. In his substantial Introduction,
Ian Haywood places the novel in the context of Jones's career as a
Chartist author and editor, and in the wider context of the 'woman
question'. Some of the topics covered by the Introduction include:
the radical press and popular enlightenment, Jones's rivalry with
George W. M. Reynolds, and the needlewoman as radical icon. This
title will be of interest to students of history.
This book serves as a retrieval and reevaluation of a rich haul of
comic caricatures from the turbulent years between the Reform Bill
crisis of the early 1830s and the rise and fall of Chartism in the
1840s. With a telling selection of illustrations, this book deploys
the techniques of close reading and political contextualization to
demonstrate the aesthetic and ideological clout of a neglected
tranche of satirical prints and periodicals dismissed as
ineffectual by historians or distasteful by contemporaries. The
prime exhibits are the work of Robert Seymour and C.J. Grant giving
acerbic comic edge to the case for reform against class and state
oppression and the excesses of the monarchical regime under the
young Queen Victoria.
This collection of essays takes a fresh look at the important role
of illustration in Romantic literature. The late eighteenth century
saw an explosion of illustrated editions of literary classics and
the emergence of a new culture of literary art, including the
innovative literary galleries. The impact of these developments on
the reading and viewing of literary texts is explored in a series
of case studies covering poetry, historical texts, drama, painting,
reproductive prints, magazines and ephemera. Romanticism and
Illustration argues for a more detailed study of illustration which
includes the context of a wider circulation of images across
different media. The modern understanding of the word
'illustration' fails to convey the complex relationship between the
artist, the engraver, the publisher, the text and the audience in
Romantic Britain. In teasing out the implications of this dynamic
cultural matrix, this book opens up a new field of Romantic
studies.
Ian Haywood explores the 'Golden Age' of caricature through the
close reading of key, iconic prints by artists including James
Gillray, George and Robert Cruikshank, and Thomas Rowlandson. This
approach both illuminates the visual and ideological complexity of
graphic satire and demonstrates how this art form transformed
Romantic-era politics into a unique and compelling spectacle of
corruption, monstrosity and resistance. New light is cast on major
Romantic controversies including the 'revolution debate' of the
1790s, the impact of Thomas Paine's 'infidel' Age of Reason, the
introduction of paper money and the resulting explosion of
executions for forgery, the propaganda campaign against Napoleon,
the revolution in Spain, the Peterloo massacre, the Queen Caroline
scandal, and the Reform Bill crisis. Overall, the volume offers
important new insights into the relationship between art, satire
and politics in a key period of history.
The Gordon riots of June 1780 were the most devastating outbreak of
urban violence in British history. For almost a week large parts of
central London were ablaze, prisons were destroyed and the Bank of
England attacked. Hundreds of rioters were shot dead by troops and
for many observers it seemed that England was on the verge of a
revolution. The first scholarly study in a generation, this book
brings together leading scholars from historical and literary
studies to provide new perspectives on these momentous events. The
essays include new archival work on the religious, political and
international contexts of the riots and new interpretations of
contemporary literary and artistic sources. For too long the
significance of the Gordon riots has been overshadowed by the
impact of the French revolution on British society and culture:
this book restores the riots to their central position in late
eighteenth-century Britain.
Ian Haywood explores the 'Golden Age' of caricature through the
close reading of key, iconic prints by artists including James
Gillray, George and Robert Cruikshank, and Thomas Rowlandson. This
approach both illuminates the visual and ideological complexity of
graphic satire and demonstrates how this art form transformed
Romantic-era politics into a unique and compelling spectacle of
corruption, monstrosity and resistance. New light is cast on major
Romantic controversies including the 'revolution debate' of the
1790s, the impact of Thomas Paine's 'infidel' Age of Reason, the
introduction of paper money and the resulting explosion of
executions for forgery, the propaganda campaign against Napoleon,
the revolution in Spain, the Peterloo massacre, the Queen Caroline
scandal, and the Reform Bill crisis. Overall, the volume offers
important new insights into the relationship between art, satire
and politics in a key period of history.
The Gordon riots of June 1780 were the most devastating outbreak of
urban violence in British history. For almost a week large parts of
central London were ablaze, prisons were destroyed and the Bank of
England attacked. Hundreds of rioters were shot dead by troops and
for many observers it seemed that England was on the verge of a
revolution. The first scholarly study in a generation, this book
brings together leading scholars from historical and literary
studies to provide new perspectives on these momentous events. The
essays include new archival work on the religious, political and
international contexts of the riots and new interpretations of
contemporary literary and artistic sources. For too long the
significance of the Gordon riots has been overshadowed by the
impact of the French revolution on British society and culture:
this book restores the riots to their central position in late
eighteenth-century Britain.
This book takes a new look at the evolution of popular literature
in Britain in the Romantic and Victorian periods. Ian Haywood
argues that developments in the history of popular literature
emerged from its intersection with radical and reactionary politics
of the time. Both sides wanted to win the heart and mind of the
'common reader' and used books to try to influence a newly literate
group in society. Making use of a wide range of archival and
primary sources, he argues that radical politics played a decisive
role in the transformation of popular literature from the plebeian
miscellany of the 1790s to the mass-circulation fiction and popular
journalism of the 1840s. By charting the key moments in the history
of 'cheap' literature, the book casts light on the many neglected
popular genres and texts: the 'pig's meat' anthology, the
female-authored didactic tale, and Chartist fiction.
This book takes a new look at the evolution of popular literature
in Britain in the Romantic and Victorian periods. Ian Haywood
argues that developments in the history of popular literature
emerged from its intersection with radical and reactionary politics
of the time. Both sides wanted to win the heart and mind of the
'common reader' and used books to try to influence a newly literate
group in society. Making use of a wide range of archival and
primary sources, he argues that radical politics played a decisive
role in the transformation of popular literature from the plebeian
miscellany of the 1790s to the mass-circulation fiction and popular
journalism of the 1840s. By charting the key moments in the history
of 'cheap' literature, the book casts light on the many neglected
popular genres and texts: the 'pig's meat' anthology, the
female-authored didactic tale, and Chartist fiction.
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