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Informationen zum Autor Mike Sanders is a Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Theory at the University of Manchester. Klappentext This book explores the contribution made by Chartist poetry to the struggle for fundamental democratic rights. Zusammenfassung Between 1838 and 1852! the leading Chartist newspaper! the Northern Star! published over 1!000 poems by more than 350 poets. As well as examining the critical history of Chartist poetry! this book explores its contribution to the struggle for democratic rights! analysing the interplay between politics! aesthetics and history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The Chartist imaginary: 'talking by turns of politics and poetry'; 2. Chartist poetry and literary history; 3. 'A jackass load of poetry': The Northern Star's poetry column 1838-52; 4. Insurrectionary sonnets: the ideological afterlife of the Newport uprising; 5. 'Merry England': memory and nostalgia in the year of the mass strike; 6. 'The future-hastening storm': Chartist poetry in 1848; 7. Constellating Chartist poetry: Gerald Massey, Walter Benjamin and the uses of messianism; Appendix A: three Chartist poems; Appendix B: details of poetry published in the poetry column of the Northern Star.
