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Commemorating Peterloo (eBook, PDF)

Violence, Resilience and Claim-making during the Romantic Era

Redaktion: Demson, Michael; Hewitt, Regina

Beschreibung

Reflections on the Bicentenary of the 1819 Massacre of Reformers in Manchester

• Provides 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 Peterloo
• Supplements treatments of Peterloo centering on English history with attention to the significance of that event from Scottish, Irish and North American perspectives

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.

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Autor

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.

Produktdetails

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