Commemorating Peterloo : : Violence, Resilience and Claim-making during the Romantic Era / / Michael Demson, Regina Hewitt.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Demson, Michael,; Hewitt, Regina,
• MitwirkendeR: Behrendt, Stephen C.,; Burwick, Frederick,; Carruthers, Gerard,; Castellano, Katey,; Demson, Michael,; Faubert, Michelle,; Haywood, Ian,; Hewitt, Regina,; Kelly, James,; Myers, Victoria,; Pittock, Murray,; Scrivener, Michael,; Shaw, Philip,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism : ECSR
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 15 B/W illustrations

Reflections on the Bicentenary of the 1819 Massacre of Reformers in ManchesterProvides a multi-perspectival, historical revaluation of the violence of PeterlooDraws on contemporary theorizations of violence by Judith Butler, Slavoj Zizek and Rob Nixon to account for the cultural factors leading to P...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction
• 1. Peterloo, Ambivalence and Commemorative Culture
• 2. The Sounds of Peterloo
• 3. Henry Hunt’s White Hat: The Long Tradition of Mute Sedition
• 4. Stagin g Protest and Repression: Guy Fawkes in Post-Peterloo Performance
• 5. Respon ses to Peterloo in Scotland, 1819–1822
• 6. ‘The Most Portentous Event in Modern History’: Irelan d Before and After the Peterloo Massacre
• 7. Political Suicide: Castlereagh, Rebellion and Self-Directed Violence
• 8. William Cobbett, ‘Resurrection Man’: The Peterloo Massacre and the Bones of Tom Paine
• 9. The Church and Peterloo
• 10. ‘Refor m or Convulsion’: Jeremy Bentham and the Peterloo Massacre
• 11. Wordsw orth after Peterloo: The Persistence of War in The River Duddon . . . and other Poems
• 12. Shelle y’s Poetry and Suffering
• Index