Chartism, Commemoration and the Cult of the Radical Hero

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Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of figures Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction Notes Part 1 Chartism and the radical tradition Chapter 1 Inventing the radical tradition Print culture and reading practices Performance, portraiture and paper pantheons Women, gender and commemoration Notes Chapter 2 Unfurling the radical tradition: The visual and material culture of Chartism From Peterloo to Chartism Visualising the radical tradition and the post-Charter world Silent messages The decline of Chartist banners Notes Chapter 3 History, memory and the rituals of pantheonism From people’s history to collective memory Dining, toasting and commemoration Notes Chapter 4 Using and abusing the radical tradition Contextualising currents of radicalism The politics of pantheonism Notes Part 2 The cult of the radical hero/villain Chapter 5 The Chartists and Mister Thomas Paine Reclaiming Paine Chartists and the fiction of the English constitution Pure Paineism and republicanism Diffusing Paine Notes Chapter 6 Forging the radical tradition: Chartism, currency and Cobbett The feast of the gridiron The currency of Cobbett Go for gold The depreciation of currency Notes Chapter 7 Richard Oastler and the Chartists A Tory or a radical? A Cobbettite radical? A Chartist in all but name Notes Chapter 8 Daniel O’Connell, Chartism and the Atlantic world The transatlantic framing of Chartism and Repeal The Chartists and Daniel O’Connell The transatlantic legacy of the age of revolutions Notes Conclusion Notes Selected bibliography Index