Commemorating Peterloo (eBook, PDF)

Violence, Resilience and Claim-making during the Romantic Era
Redaktion: Demson, Michael; Hewitt, Regina

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Produktbeschreibung

Reflections on the Bicentenary of the 1819 Massacre of Reformers in Manchester Two hundred years after the massacre of protestors in Manchester, known as Peterloo, distinguished scholars of Romantic-era literature join together in this commemorative volume to assess the implications of the violence. Contributors explore how attitudes toward violence and the claims of people to participate in government were reflected and revised in the verbal and visual culture of the time. Their analyses provide fresh insights into cultural engagement as a means of resisting oppression and a sign of the resilience of humanity in facing threats and force.Key FeaturesProvides a multi-perspectival, historical revaluation of the violence of Peterloo Draws on contemporary theorizations of violence by Judith Butler, Slavoj Zizek and Rob Nixon to account for the cultural factors leading to PeterlooSupplements treatments of Peterloo centering on English history with attention to the significance of that event from Scottish, Irish and North American perspectives

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474428583
• Artikelnr.: 72430502

Autorenporträt

Michael Demson is an Associate Professor of English and the Director of the Master's Program in English at Sam Houston State University, where he teaches courses in Romanticism, Literary Theory, and World Literature. He has published articles in European Romantic Review, Romanticism, Romantic Circles Praxis, among others, and his non-fiction graphic novel, Masks of Anarchy: From Percy Shelley to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (Verso Books, 2013). Regina Hewitt is Professor of English at the University of South Florida. She is the editor of John Galt: Observations and Conjectures on Literature, History, and Society (Bucknell, 2012) and author of Symbolic Interactions: Social Problems and Literary Interventions in the Works of Baillie, Scott, and Landor (Bucknell, 2006). She has written and edited a range of other studies on social concerns in Romantic-era literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction
Michael Demson and Regina Hewitt; 1. Peterloo
Ambivalence
and Commemorative Culture
Stephen C. Behrendt; 2. The Sounds of Peterloo
Ian Haywood; 3. Henry Hunt's White Hat: The Long Tradition of Mute Sedition
Murray Pittock; 4. Staging Protest and Repression: Guy Fawkes in Post-Peterloo Performance
Frederick Burwick; 5. Responses to Peterloo in Scotland
1819-1822
Gerard Carruthers; 6. 'The Most Portentous Event in Modern History': Ireland Before and After Peterloo
James Kelly; 7. Political Suicide: Castlereagh
Rebellion
and Self-Directed Violence
Michelle Faubert; 8. William Cobbett
'Resurrection Man': The Peterloo Massacre and the Bones of Tom Paine
Katey Castellano; 9. The Church and Peterloo
John Gardner; 10. 'Reform or Convulsion': Jeremy Bentham and the Peterloo Massacre
Victoria Myers; 11. Wordsworth After Peterloo: The Persistence of War in The River Duddon . . . and other Poems
Philip Shaw; 12. Shelley's Poetry and Suffering
Michael Scrivener; Index.