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Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Summer excursions in ... Kent, along the banks of the rivers Thames and Medway
Author: Summer Excursions in the County of Kent, Along the Banks of the River Thames and Medway. Illustrated with ... Engravings on Wood, Etc
Author: Summer Excursions in the County of Kent, Along the Banks of the River Thames and Medway. Illustrated with ... Engravings on Wood, Etc
Author: The Book of British Topography
Author: John Parker AndersonPublisher:
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Category : British Isles
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
A catalogue of works in all departments of English literature
Author: Longmans, Green and coPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
A catalogue of works in all departments of English Literature, classified; with a general alphabetical index. The full titles, sizes, prices and dates of the last editions are given. Second edition, corrected to January 1st, 1848
Author: Records of the Miller Hospital and Royal Kent Dispensary
Author: John PolandPublisher:
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Category : Business records
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Book Catalogue
Author: John Russell SmithThe Poetry and the Politics
Author: Gregory JamesPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857724959
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The nineteenth century was a time of 'movements' - political, social, moral reform causes - which drew on the energies of men and women across Britain. This book studies radical reform at the margins of early Victorian society, focusing on decades of particular social, political and technological ferment: when foreign and British promoters of extravagant technologically assisted utopias could attract many hundreds of supporters of limited means, persuaded to escape grim conditions by emigration to South America; when pioneers of vegetarianism joined the ranks of the temperance movement; and when working-class Chartists, reviving a struggle for political reform, seemed to threaten the State for a brief moment in April 1848. Through the forgotten figure of James Elmslie Duncan, 'shabby genteel' poet and self-proclaimed 'Apostle of the Messiahdom', The Poetry and the Politics considers themes including poetry's place in radical culture, the response of pantomime to the Chartist challenge to law and order, and associations between madness and revolution.Duncan became a promoter of the technological fantasies of John Adolphus Etzler, a poet of science who prophesied a future free from drudgery, through machinery powered by natural forces. Etzler dreamed of crystal palaces: Duncan's public freedom was to end dramatically in 1851 just as a real crystal palace opened to an astonished world. In addition to Duncan, James Gregory also introduces a cast of other poets, earnest reformers and agitators, such as William Thom the weaver poet of Inverury, whose metropolitan feting would end in tragedy; John Goodwyn Barmby, bearded Pontiffarch of the Communist Church; a lunatic 'Invisible Poet' of Cremorne pleasure gardens; the hatter from Reading who challenged the 'feudal' restrictions of the Game Laws by tract, trespass and stuffed jay birds; and foreign exotics such as the German-born Conrad Stollmeyer, escaping the sinking of an experimental Naval Automaton in Margate to build a fortune as theAsphalt King of Trinidad.Combining these figures with the biography of a man whose literary career was eccentric and whose public antics were capitalised upon by critics of Chartist agitation, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in radical reform and popular political movements in Victorian Britain.