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4 The Literature of Chartism
Get accessIan Haywood is Professor of English at the University of Roehampton. Among his books are The Revolution in Popular Literature: Print, Politics and the People 1790–1860 (2004), Romanticism and Caricature (2013) and three edited volumes of Chartist fiction for Routledge. He is co-editor of Spain and British Romanticism (2018) and Romanticism and Illustration (2019). His most recent book, will be The Rise of Victorian Caricature (2020), is a study of radical caricature in the 1830s and 1840s.
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Published:02 September 2014
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Abstract
This chapter surveys and assesses the growing critical interest in the literature of Chartism. One of the most remarkable aspects of Britain’s first mass democratic movement was its significant output of creative literature. From the late 1830s to the early 1850s Chartist newspapers and periodicals published thousands of poems and a substantial amount of shorter and longer fiction. All this literature—whether written by anonymous and forgotten supporters or by more established Chartist authors such as Thomas Cooper, Ernest Jones and George W. M. Reynolds—combined a passionate commitment to political reform with a striving for new imaginative forms, voices, and narratives. Chartism mounted a direct challenge to the middle- and upper-class domination of both politics and literature, and it is this interweaving of radical politics and aesthetics that has continued to attract scholarly attention.
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