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The Poetry of Chartism: Aesthetics, Politics, History

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Between 1838 and 1852, the leading Chartist newspaper, the Northern Star, published over 1000 poems written by more than 350 poets - as the readership of the Northern Star numbered hundreds of thousands, these poems were amongst the most widely read of the Victorian era. This book offers a complete record of all the poems published. It asks a simple question: why did the writing and reading of poetry play such an important role in Chartism's struggle to secure fundamental democratic rights? It answers this question by ...

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The Poetry of Chartism: Aesthetics, Politics, History 2012, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9781107403932

Trade paperback

The Poetry of Chartism: Aesthetics, Politics, History 2009, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521899185

Hardcover