Commemorating Peterloo : : Violence, Resilience and Claim-making during the Romantic Era / / Michael Demson, Regina Hewitt.
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...
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Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism : ECSR
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 15 B/W illustrations |
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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