1st Edition
Chartism, Commemoration and the Cult of the Radical Hero
By Matthew Roberts
Copyright 2020
250 Pages
by
Routledge
250 Pages
by
Routledge
250 Pages
by
Routledge
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Chartism, the British mass movement for democratic and social rights in the 1830s and 1840s, was profoundly shaped by the radical tradition from which it emerged. Yet, little attention has been paid to how Chartists saw themselves in relation to this diverse radical tradition or to the ways in which they invented their own tradition. Paine, Cobbett and other ‘founding fathers’, dead and alive,... Read more
List of tables and figures
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part 1: Chartism and the Radical Tradition
- Inventing the Radical Tradition
- Unfurling the Radical Tradition: the Visual and Material Culture of Chartism
- History, Memory and the Rituals of Pantheonism
- Using and Abusing the Radical Tradition
- The Chartists and Mister Thomas Paine
- Forging the Radical Tradition: Chartism, Currency and Cobbett
- Richard Oastler and the Chartists
- Daniel O’Connell, Chartism and the Atlantic World
Part 2: The Cult of the Radical Hero/Villain
Conclusion
Selected Bibliography
Index
Biography
Matthew Roberts is Reader in Modern British History at Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK.
