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Ernest Jones, Chartism, and the Romance of Politics 1819-1869

Taylor, Miles
Innbundet / 2003 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780198207290
Publisert
2003
Utgiver
Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press
Vekt
466 gr
Høyde
224 mm
Bredde
145 mm
Dybde
21 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
292

Forfatter
Taylor, Miles

Ernest Jones, Chartism, and the Romance of Politics 1819-1869

Taylor, Miles
Innbundet / 2003 / Engelsk
Taylor, Miles
Innbundet / 2003 / Engelsk
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Ernest Jones is the last of the major Chartist leaders to have received a modern biography, and in this volume Miles Taylor does the job splendidly. Thoroughly researched, beautifully written ... the biography offers a bold and convincing interpretation of a man whose enigmatic life has confused and frustrated generations of Chartist scholars.

History

Jones was a fantasist with no money, a man with aspirations to grandeur beyond his means, a failure in most things except in establishing his own heroically romantic reputation. In this last alone he succeeded. Miles Taylor tells us why and how.

History

Taylor has written an immensely readable account, putting straight the record about some of Jones' romantic claims without debunking or ridiculing the man himself.

The Times Higher Education Supplement

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... of great interest to anyone wanting to understand some of the realities of life in the mid-Victorian period.

The Times Higher Education Supplement

Miles Taylor has done outstanding work as a sifter of documentation ... an excellent book.

London Review of Books

Miles Taylor has assembled the evidence of an unfashionable life with enormous care.

London Review of Books

Taylor's excellent, wide-ranging book shows the variety of elements that made up a mid-nineteenth-century political personality ... Jones's complex psychology is conveyed with great skill.

Matt Shinn, Times Literary Supplement

Ernest Jones (1819-69) was the last of the Chartist leaders, and in many ways the last in the long line of gentlemanly radicals who graced popular politics in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. His life was an extraordinarily colourful affair. Born into the fringes of the late Hanoverian court, and an habitué of the fashionable literary salons of London society, Jones renounced respectability and joined the Chartists, suffering imprisonment for his radical beliefs. He re-emerged as a popular leader at the height of the agitation for the second reform bill in the mid-1860s, becoming, alongside John Bright, the most popular orator of his generation. Jones was also a poet, dramatist and novelist, and this study - the first full biography in over a century - interweaves an account of his literary achievement with his political career, revealing Jones as the mid-Victorian incarnation of Shelley's romantic vision of the poet as patriot. A major contribution to Chartist historiography, this book also reveals the materials out of which political personality was fashioned in the mid-Victorian age.
Les mer
This is the first full modern biography of Ernest Jones (1819-69), the last of the Chartist leaders. This book combines an account of his colourful political career in the age of reform with an overdue assessment of his literary achievement.
Les mer
Preface ; List of Abbreviations ; List of Plates ; Introduction ; 1. A German Childhood ; 2. Karl, or Literary Life in London 1839-45 ; 3. The Poet as Patriot 1846-48 ; 4. The Poet as Martyr 1848-50 ; 5. The Poor Man's Editor 1850-59 ; 6. The People's Advocate 1860-65 ; 7. The People's Champion 1866-67 ; 8. Manchester 1868 ; Epilogue ; Bibliography
Les mer
First complete biography of the last of the Chartist leaders Inter-disciplinary, appealing both to historians and literary scholars Colourful Victorian biography, full of scandal, tragedy, and pathos
First complete biography of the last of the Chartist leaders Inter-disciplinary, appealing both to historians and literary scholars Colourful Victorian biography, full of scandal, tragedy, and pathos

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Ernest Jones is the last of the major Chartist leaders to have received a modern biography, and in this volume Miles Taylor does the job splendidly. Thoroughly researched, beautifully written ... the biography offers a bold and convincing interpretation of a man whose enigmatic life has confused and frustrated generations of Chartist scholars.

History

Jones was a fantasist with no money, a man with aspirations to grandeur beyond his means, a failure in most things except in establishing his own heroically romantic reputation. In this last alone he succeeded. Miles Taylor tells us why and how.

History

Taylor has written an immensely readable account, putting straight the record about some of Jones' romantic claims without debunking or ridiculing the man himself.

The Times Higher Education Supplement

Se alle

... of great interest to anyone wanting to understand some of the realities of life in the mid-Victorian period.

The Times Higher Education Supplement

Miles Taylor has done outstanding work as a sifter of documentation ... an excellent book.

London Review of Books

Miles Taylor has assembled the evidence of an unfashionable life with enormous care.

London Review of Books

Taylor's excellent, wide-ranging book shows the variety of elements that made up a mid-nineteenth-century political personality ... Jones's complex psychology is conveyed with great skill.

Matt Shinn, Times Literary Supplement

Ernest Jones (1819-69) was the last of the Chartist leaders, and in many ways the last in the long line of gentlemanly radicals who graced popular politics in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. His life was an extraordinarily colourful affair. Born into the fringes of the late Hanoverian court, and an habitué of the fashionable literary salons of London society, Jones renounced respectability and joined the Chartists, suffering imprisonment for his radical beliefs. He re-emerged as a popular leader at the height of the agitation for the second reform bill in the mid-1860s, becoming, alongside John Bright, the most popular orator of his generation. Jones was also a poet, dramatist and novelist, and this study - the first full biography in over a century - interweaves an account of his literary achievement with his political career, revealing Jones as the mid-Victorian incarnation of Shelley's romantic vision of the poet as patriot. A major contribution to Chartist historiography, this book also reveals the materials out of which political personality was fashioned in the mid-Victorian age.
Les mer
This is the first full modern biography of Ernest Jones (1819-69), the last of the Chartist leaders. This book combines an account of his colourful political career in the age of reform with an overdue assessment of his literary achievement.
Les mer
Preface ; List of Abbreviations ; List of Plates ; Introduction ; 1. A German Childhood ; 2. Karl, or Literary Life in London 1839-45 ; 3. The Poet as Patriot 1846-48 ; 4. The Poet as Martyr 1848-50 ; 5. The Poor Man's Editor 1850-59 ; 6. The People's Advocate 1860-65 ; 7. The People's Champion 1866-67 ; 8. Manchester 1868 ; Epilogue ; Bibliography
Les mer
First complete biography of the last of the Chartist leaders Inter-disciplinary, appealing both to historians and literary scholars Colourful Victorian biography, full of scandal, tragedy, and pathos
First complete biography of the last of the Chartist leaders Inter-disciplinary, appealing both to historians and literary scholars Colourful Victorian biography, full of scandal, tragedy, and pathos

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198207290
Publisert
2003
Utgiver
Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press
Vekt
466 gr
Høyde
224 mm
Bredde
145 mm
Dybde
21 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
292

Forfatter
Taylor, Miles

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