Democratic passions
The politics of feeling in British popular radicalism, 1809-48
By Matthew Roberts
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Book Information
- Format: Hardcover
- ISBN: 978-1-5261-3704-3
- Pages: 272
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Price: £80.00
- Published Date: June 2022
- BIC Category: Modern History, Politics, History, European history: medieval period, middle ages, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Radicalism, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain, Humanities / Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Humanities / Social & cultural history, Humanities / British & Irish history
Description
This book challenges the assumption - just as alive today as it was in the nineteenth century - that the political sphere was an arena of reason in which feelings had no part to play. It shows that feelings were a central, albeit contested, aspect of the political culture of the period. Radical leaders were accused of inflaming the passions; the state and its propertied supporters were charged with callousness; radicals grounded their claims to citizenship in the universalist assumption that workers had the same capacity for feeling as their social betters (denied at this time). It sheds new light on the relationship between protest movements and the state by showing how one of the central issues at stake in the conflict between radicals and their oppressors was the feelings of the propertied classes.
Contents
Introduction
1. William Cobbett's anti-'feelosofee'
2. Richard Carlile and the embodiment of reason's republic
3. Robert Owen, harmonic passions and the practice of happiness
4. Gothic King Dick: Richard Oastler and Tory-radical feeling
5. J.R. Stephens and the prophetic politics of the heart
6. William Lovett and the battle for asceticism in early Chartism
7. Daniel O'Connell, Feargus O'Connor and the politics of 'anger'
Conclusion
Select Bibliography
Index
Author
Matthew Roberts is Associate Professor of Modern British History at Sheffield Hallam University
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