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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 Features
Provides 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
Contents
IllustrationsAcknowledgements ContributorsIntroduction, Michael Demson and Regina Hewitt
1. Peterloo, Ambivalence, and Commemorative Culture, Stephen C. Behrendt
2. The Sounds of Peterloo, Ian Haywood
3. Henry Hunt's White Hat: The Long Tradition of Mute Sedition, Murray Pittock
4. Staging Protest and Repression: Guy Fawkes in Post-Peterloo Performance, Frederick Burwick
5. Responses to Peterloo in Scotland, 1819-1822, Gerard Carruthers
6. 'The Most Portentous Event in Modern History': Ireland Before and After Peterloo, James Kelly
7. Political Suicide: Castlereagh, Rebellion, and Self-Directed Violence, Michelle Faubert
8. William Cobbett, 'Resurrection Man': The Peterloo Massacre and the Bones of Tom Paine, Katey Castellano
9. The Church and Peterloo, John Gardner
10. 'Reform or Convulsion': Jeremy Bentham and the Peterloo Massacre, Victoria Myers
11. Wordsworth After Peterloo: The Persistence of War in The River Duddon . . . and other Poems, Philip Shaw
12. Shelley's Poetry and Suffering, Michael Scrivener
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