Regency Radical - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Regency Radical write by William Hone. This book was released on 2003. Regency Radical available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Illustrated with over sixty woodcuts by Hone's frequent collaborator, George Cruikshank, this book reveals the writer's commitment to such issues as parliamentary reform, religious liberty, reform of asylums, and freedom of the press, while conveying the many dimensions of his humane personality.".
Jane Austen, the Secret Radical
Jane Austen, the Secret Radical - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jane Austen, the Secret Radical write by Helena Kelly. This book was released on 2016-11-03. Jane Austen, the Secret Radical available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'A sublime piece of literary detective work that shows us once and for all how to be precisely the sort of reader that Austen deserves.' Caroline Criado-Perez, Guardian Almost everything we think we know about Jane Austen is wrong. Her novels don't confine themselves to grand houses and they were not written just for readers' enjoyment. She writes about serious subjects and her books are deeply subversive. We just don't read her properly - we haven't been reading her properly for 200 years. Jane Austen, The Secret Radical puts that right. In her first, brilliantly original book, Austen expert Helena Kelly introduces the reader to a passionate woman living in an age of revolution; to a writer who used what was regarded as the lightest of literary genres, the novel, to grapple with the weightiest of subjects – feminism, slavery, abuse, the treatment of the poor, the power of the Church, even evolution – at a time, and in a place, when to write about such things directly was seen as akin to treason. Uncovering a radical, spirited and political engaged Austen, Jane Austen, The Secret Radical will encourage you to read Jane, all over again.
Radical Underworld
Radical Underworld - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Radical Underworld write by Iain McCalman. This book was released on 1988-03-03. Radical Underworld available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This highly acclaimed study draws on information from spy reports and contemporary literature to look at English popular radicalism during the period between the anti-Jacobin government "Terror" of the 1790s and the beginnings of Chartism. The book traces for the first time the history of theunderground revolutionary-republican grouping founded by the agrarian reformer, Thomas Spence. Challenging conventional distinctions between "high" and "low" culture, McCalman illuminates the darker, more populist sides of Romanticism. Radical Underworld broadens the conventional boundaries ofpopular politics and culture by exploring a political underworld connected with poverty, crime, prophetic religion, and literary culture.
Shelley's Radical Stages
Shelley's Radical Stages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shelley's Radical Stages write by Dana Van Kooy. This book was released on 2016-03-31. Shelley's Radical Stages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dana Van Kooy draws critical attention to Percy Bysshe Shelley as a dramatist and argues that his dramas represent a critical paradigm of romanticism in which history is 'staged'. Reading Shelley's dramas as a series of radical stages - historical reenactments and theatrical reproductions - Van Kooy highlights the cultural significance of the drama and the theatre in shaping and contesting constructions of both the sovereign nation and the global empire in the post-Napoleonic era. This book is about the power of performance to challenge and reformulate cultural memories that were locked in historical narratives and in Britain's theatrical repertoire. It examines each of Shelley's dramas as a specific radical stage that reformulates the familiar cultural performances of war, revolution, slavery and domestic tyranny. Shelley's plays invite audiences to step away from these horrors and to imagine their lives as something other than a tragedy or a melodrama where characters are entrapped in cycles of violence or struck blind or silent by fear. Although Shelley's dramas are few in number they engage a larger cultural project of aesthetic and political reform that constituted a groundswell of activism that took place during the Romantic period.
Nineteenth-Century Radical Traditions
Nineteenth-Century Radical Traditions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nineteenth-Century Radical Traditions write by Joseph Bristow. This book was released on 2016-09-08. Nineteenth-Century Radical Traditions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book takes a fresh look at the progressive interventions of writers in the nineteenth century. From Cobbett to Dickens and George Eliot, and including a host of lesser known figures – popular novelists, poets, journalists, political activists – writers shared a commitment to exploring the potential of literature as a medium in which to imagine new and better worlds. The essays in this volume ask how we should understand these interventions and what are their legacies in the twentieth and twenty first centuries? Inspired by the work of the radical literary scholar, the late Sally Ledger, this volume provides a commentary on the political traditions that underpin the literature of this complex period, and examines the interpretive methods that are needed to understand them. This timely book contributes to our appreciation of the radical traditions that underpin our literary past.
