Commemorating Peterloo: Violence, Resilience and Claim-making during the Romantic Era

Michael Demson; Regina Hewitt

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2019

Commemorating Peterloo

Violence, Resilience and Claim-making during the Romantic Era

Michael Demson and Regina Hewitt

In the series Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474428583

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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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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Notes on Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Michael Demson and Regina Hewitt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Peterloo, Ambivalence and Commemorative Culture Stephen C. Behrendt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
2. The Sounds of Peterloo Ian Haywood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
3. Henry Hunt’s White Hat: The Long Tradition of Mute Sedition Murray Pittock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
4. Stagin g Protest and Repression: Guy Fawkes in Post-Peterloo Performance Frederick Burwick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
5. Respon ses to Peterloo in Scotland, 1819–1822 Gerard Carruthers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
6. ‘The Most Portentous Event in Modern History’: Irelan d Before and After the Peterloo Massacre James Kelly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
7. Political Suicide: Castlereagh, Rebellion and Self-Directed Violence Michelle Faubert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
8. William Cobbett, ‘Resurrection Man’: The Peterloo Massacre and the Bones of Tom Paine Katey Castellano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
9. The Church and Peterloo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
10. ‘Refor m or Convulsion’: Jeremy Bentham and the Peterloo Massacre Victoria Myers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
11. Wordsw orth after Peterloo: The Persistence of War in The River Duddon . . . and other Poems Philip Shaw Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	250
12. Shelle y’s Poetry and Suffering Michael Scrivener Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 312
Illustrations
- Other: 15 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Literary Studies

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Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9781474428583