Chartism, Commemoration and the Cult of the Radical Hero

ISBN-13: 9780367784096 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 228 str.

Matthew Roberts

Opis

By drawing on new and exciting work in the fields of visual and material culture, cultures of heroism, memory and commemoration, critical heritage studies and the history of political thought, this book explores the complex cultural work that radical heroes were made to perform.

Spis treści

List of tables and figures

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part 1: Chartism and the Radical Tradition

1. Inventing the Radical Tradition














2. Unfurling the Radical Tradition: the Visual and Material Culture of Chartism










　









3. History, Memory and the Rituals of Pantheonism














4. Using and Abusing the Radical Tradition










　





Part 2: The Cult of the Radical Hero/Villain












5. The Chartists and Mister Thomas Paine














6. Forging the Radical Tradition: Chartism, Currency and Cobbett










　









7. Richard Oastler and the Chartists














8. Daniel O’Connell, Chartism and the Atlantic World

Conclusion

Selected Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Matthew Roberts is Reader in Modern British History at Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK.