Mike Sanders (University of Manchester)

The Poetry of Chartism

Aesthetics, Politics, History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Between 1838 and 1852, the leading Chartist newspaper, the Northern Star, published over 1,000 poems by more than 350 poets. As well as examining the critical history of Chartist poetry, this book explores its contribution to the struggle for democratic rights, analysing the interplay between politics, aesthetics and history.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9781107403932
• ISBN-10: 1107403936
• Artikelnr.: 34450183

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The Chartist imaginary: 'talking by turns of politics and poetry'
2. Chartist poetry and literary history
3. 'A jackass load of poetry': The Northern Star's poetry column 1838-52
4. Insurrectionary sonnets: the ideological afterlife of the Newport uprising
5. 'Merry England': memory and nostalgia in the year of the mass strike
6. 'The future-hastening storm': Chartist poetry in 1848
7. Constellating Chartist poetry: Gerald Massey, Walter Benjamin and the uses of messianism
Appendix A: three Chartist poems
Appendix B: details of poetry published in the poetry column of the Northern Star.