Ariane Schnepf

Our Original Rights as a People

Representations of the Chartist Encyclopaedic Network and Political, Social and Cultural Change in Early Nineteenth Century Britain. Dissertationsschrift

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In their struggle for universal suffrage, the Chartists adapted language to further their cause. Adopting the prevailing keywords of the time and reformulating them within their own cultural environment, the Chartists defined and redefined their own political identity and interpreted the situation they lived in. This book is a case study of Chartism as an example of how radical political movements present themselves in language and how they appear in networks of meaning. Chartist vocabulary and keywords are studied in their historical context and decoded according to political, social and cultural significance. Set in constitutional politics of the time, the Chartist network of keywords includes allusions to a radical past and reaches out into an imaginary future of a liberal market economy and social policy.
The three main concerns in the Chartist struggle were the individual, Britain as a nation and the influence of political movements abroad.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 10968
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 17mm x 150mm x 220mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9783039109685
• ISBN-10: 3039109685
• Artikelnr.: 27792139

Autorenporträt

The Author: Ariane Schnepf (1963) has a Ph.D. from the University of Basel, specialising in English history of the early nineteenth century. She studied English Language and Literature as well as Modern History obtaining her M.A. in 1991. She has since worked in various projects in libraries and in adult education.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: From Language to Encyclopaedia - Communicating the Encyclopaedic Network - 'Man': 'Knowledge', 'Reason', and 'Nature' - «The Two Nations» - Internationalism: The Chartists look abroad.