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Poetry and popular protest : Peterloo, Cato Street and the Queen Caroline controversy
- Title
- Poetry and popular protest : Peterloo, Cato Street and the Queen Caroline controversy / John Gardner.
- Author
- Gardner, John, 1971-
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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Details
- Description
- xix, 272 pages : illustrations, portraits; 23 cm.
- Summary
- This text provides information on poetry written in response to the most revolutionary set of events seen in Britain since the 1640s: Peterloo, a peaceful protest that became a massacre, Cato Street, a government scripted rebellion, and the Queen Caroline Controversy, when the estranged wife of George IV tried to claim her crown.
- Series Statement
- Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print
- Uniform Title
- Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print
- Alternative Title
- Peterloo, Cato Street and the Queen Caroline controversy
- Subject
- Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 > In literature
- Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
- 1800-1899
- Protest poetry, English > History and criticism
- Political poetry, English > History and criticism
- English poetry > 19th century > History and criticism
- Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Peterloo Massacre, Manchester, England, 1819
- Cato Street Conspiracy, 1820
- Romanticism > Great Britain
- English poetry
- Literature
- Political poetry, English
- Politics and literature
- Protest poetry, English
- Romanticism
- England > Manchester
- Great Britain
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-261) and index.
- Contents
- Pt. I Peterloo -- 1.Peterloo -- 2.Myth-making: Samuel Bamford and Peterloo -- 3.William Hone's Peterloo -- 4.Shelley: Doggerel and Dialectics -- pt. II The Cato Street Conspiracy -- 5.The Cato Street Tragedy -- 6.Charles Lamb and the Spy System -- 7.Byron, Cato Street and Marino Faliero -- pt. III The Queen Caroline Controversy -- 8.Introducing the Players -- 9.Byron and the Loyalists -- 10.Shelley and the Radicals.
- ISBN
- 9780230280717
- 0230280714
- LCCN
- 2011500141
- OCLC
- ocn748809373
- 748809373
- SCSB-14503831
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library