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33 Political Controversy II: Waterloo To Peterloo
Get accessJohn Gardner is Professor of English Literature at Anglia Ruskin University and is author of Poetry and Popular Protest: Peterloo, Cato Street and the Queen Caroline Controversy (2011; 2018). Also a Leverhulme Research Fellow, John leads the project Engineering Romanticism, which examines intersections between literary and engineering cultures between 1798 (the year of the lead-screw lathe) and 1851 (the Great Exhibition). Gardner is also editor of a forthcoming Cambridge University Press book on the 1830s; Pierce Egan’s Life in London for Oxford University Press World’s Classics; and the Charles Lamb Bulletin.
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Published:22 May 2024
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Concentrating on class and perceptions of the army, this chapter examines the transmission of violence between Waterloo (1815) and Peterloo (1819). Both events produced polarized views: from the celebratory congratulations of William Wordsworth and Robert Southey following Waterloo and Peterloo, to the violent misery of William Hazlitt and Robert Wedderburn after these events. Wordsworth, who became a dark tourist of the battle scenes, usually found inspiration in places inhabited by the dead, but at Peterloo may have found his younger, radical self-challenged by a new sympathy for the government-sanctioned killing of peaceful protestors. The conflation of violence between Waterloo and Peterloo further established that people were not so much separated by national interests as by class. Using texts by Samuel Bamford, George Cruikshank, Hazlitt, William Hone, Southey, Wedderburn, and Wordsworth, this chapter examines links between Waterloo and Peterloo as Britain saw demands for representation suppressed.
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