Commemorating Peterloo

Violence, Resilience and Claim-making during the Romantic Era

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Av Michael Demson, Regina Hewitt, Sam Houston State University) Demson, Michael (Professor of English, University of South Florida) Hewitt, Regina (Professor of English

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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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Utgivningsdatum2019-05-01
Mått156 x 234 x 23 mm
Vikt608 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism
Antal sidor312
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474428569

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Michael Demson is Professor of English at Sam Houston State University. He coedited, with Christopher Clason, Romantic Automata: Exhibitions, Figures, Organisms (2020) and, with Regina Hewitt, Commemorating Peterloo: Violence, Resilience and Claim-making during the Romantic Era (2019). He has published articles in European Romantic Review, Romanticism, Romantic Circles, The Keats-Shelley Journal, The Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, among others. His graphic novel, Masks of Anarchy: From Percy Shelley to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, was published in 2013. Regina Hewitt is Professor of English at the University of South Florida. Her most recent publications include Commemorating Peterloo: Violence, Resilience and Claim-Making during the Romantic Era, co-edited with Michael Demson (2019), and an edition of Lawrie Todd for the Edinburgh Edition of the Works of John Galt (2023). Formerly Co-Editor of the European Romantic Review, she now serves as a Consulting Editor for that journal.

IllustrationsAcknowledgements ContributorsIntroduction, Michael Demson and Regina Hewitt1. Peterloo, Ambivalence, and Commemorative Culture, Stephen C. Behrendt 2. The Sounds of Peterloo, Ian Haywood3. Henry Hunt’s White Hat: The Long Tradition of Mute Sedition, Murray Pittock4. Staging Protest and Repression: Guy Fawkes in Post-Peterloo Performance, Frederick Burwick5. Responses to Peterloo in Scotland, 1819-1822, Gerard Carruthers6. ‘The Most Portentous Event in Modern History’: Ireland Before and After Peterloo, James Kelly7. Political Suicide: Castlereagh, Rebellion, and Self-Directed Violence, Michelle Faubert8. William Cobbett, ‘Resurrection Man’: The Peterloo Massacre and the Bones of Tom Paine, Katey Castellano9. The Church and Peterloo, John Gardner10. ‘Reform or Convulsion’: Jeremy Bentham and the Peterloo Massacre, Victoria Myers11. Wordsworth After Peterloo: The Persistence of War in The River Duddon . . . and other Poems, Philip Shaw12. Shelley’s Poetry and Suffering, Michael ScrivenerIndex