The Lion of Freedom: Feargus O'Connor and the Chartist Movement, 1832-1842 - Softcover

Epstein, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0992946611 ISBN 13: 9780992946616

Publisher: Breviary Stuff Publications, 2015

Synopsis

This book offers an evaluation of the political leadership of Feargus O'Connor, the most prominent leader of the Chartist movement. This study covers the period from 1832-1842 - from O'Connor's election to Parliament through to the establishment of his ascendency over the national leadership of the Chartist movement.Central to this study is a consideration of the principal institutions of national radical leadership, organisation and agitation - the platform and the mass demonstration, the Chartist Press and National Charter Association. While O'Connor came to prominence in the familiar role of the radical gentleman orator at the mass demonstration which heralded the advent of Chartism, he was able to turn his appeal as a charismatic demagogue towards the creation of more permanent and democratic forms of working-class organisation and leadership. Not simply a political biography of O'Connor, this book offers a general history of Chartism and provides an interpretive framework for understanding this complex political movement

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About the Author

James Epstein is Distinguished Professor of History, Department of History, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. His previous publications include In Practice: Studies in the Language and Culture of Popular Politics in Modern Britain (2003) and Radical Expression: Political Language, Ritual, and Symbol in England, 1790 1850 (1994).

Edition details

• Publisher: Breviary Stuff Publications
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0992946611
• ISBN 13: 9780992946616
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 296