Chartism, Commemoration and the Cult of the Radical Hero

Chartism, Commemoration and the Cult of the Radical Hero
ISBN-10
042958248X
ISBN-13
9780429582486
Category
History
Pages
228
Language
English
Published
2019-08-15
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Matthew Roberts

Description

Chartism, the British mass movement for democratic and social rights in the 1830s and 1840s, was profoundly shaped by the radical tradition from which it emerged. Yet, little attention has been paid to how Chartists saw themselves in relation to this diverse radical tradition or to the ways in which they invented their own tradition. Paine, Cobbett and other ‘founding fathers’, dead and alive, were used and in some cases abused by Chartists in their own attempts to invent a radical tradition. 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.

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