Chartist Imaginary

Literary Form in Working-Class Political Theory and Practice

Autor: Margaret A Loose

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Editura: Ohio State University Press

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Can imaginative literature change the political and social history of a class or nation? In The Char...

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Autor

Margaret A Loose

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2016

Pagini

196

EAN

9780814252833

ISBN

9780814252833

Enbook ID

01030808

Editura

Ohio State University Press

Greutate

295

Dimensiuni

152 x 229 x 11

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Can imaginative literature change the political and social history of a class or nation? In The Chartist Imaginary: Literary Form in Working-Class Political Theory and Practice, Margaret Loose turns to the Chartist Movement-Britain's first mass working-class movement, dating from the 1830s to the 1840s-and argues that, based on literature by members of the movement, the answer to that question is a resounding "yes." Chartist writing awakened workers' awareness of discord between professed ideals and reality; exercised their conceptual powers (literary and social); and sharpened their appetite for more knowledge, intellectual power, dignity, and agency in the present to fashion a utopian future. Igniting such self-respecting, politically transfigurative energy was a unique kind of agency Loose calls "the Chartist imaginary." In examining the Chartist movement, Loose balances the nervous projections of canonical Victorian writers against a consideration of the ways that laborers represented Chartism's aims and tactics. The Chartist Imaginary offers close readings of poems and fiction by Chartist figures from Ernest Jones and Thomas Cooper to W. J. Linton, Thomas Martin Wheeler, and Gerald Massey. It also draws on extensive archival research to examine, for the first time, working-class female Chartist poets Mary Hutton, E. L. E., and Elizabeth La Mont. Focusing on the literary form of these works, Loose strongly argues for the political power of the aesthetic in working-class literature. Margaret A. Loose is associate professor of British Literature at the University of California, San Diego.

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