The Poetry and the Politic: Radical Reform in Victorian England
- Submitting institution
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University of Plymouth
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 356
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- ISBN
- 9781780767239
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- Re-examining early-Victorian radicalism via biography and the poetic dimension to Chartism, The Poetry and the Politics reflects the field's "literary turn". Drawing on scholarship on Victorian poetry, pantomime and theatre; medical history; and utopianism; the book coheres around the poet James Elmslie Duncan, figure of ridicule in anti-Chartist commentary in the late 1840s, and associates. Eclectic interests like emigration, spelling reform, vegetarianism and beards, are explored through Duncan's career from publicist of Etzlerite techno-utopianism to lunatic asylum inmate. Sixty-three pages of endnotes document a rich source base of mainstream press, broadside ephemera, Chartist and radical periodicals, police, and asylum records.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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