'The people' and British literature : belonging, exclusion, and democracy / edited by Benjamin Kohlmann, Matthew Taunton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kohlmann, Benjamin, 1981- editor.

Taunton, Matthew, editor.

Series:

Cambridge themes in British literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics and literature--Great Britain--History.

Politics and literature.

Literature and society--Great Britain--History.

Literature and society.

Citizenship in literature.

Democracy in literature.

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 402 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2026.

Summary:

"This book ranges across historical periods to offer a comprehensive and much-needed critical prehistory of contemporary invocations of 'the people' in political discourse and public debate. In doing so, the twenty-three essays also build on ideas and methods from other disciplines, such as political theory, sociology, and media history"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Writing the commons, c. 1400 / Andrew Galloway

States of peace : anti-war thought within and beyond the nation in the eighteenth century / Andrea Haslanger

Antisemitism, sex, and citizenship : G.W.M. Reynolds and Chartism / Ella Dzelzainis

Meritocracy, adult education, and “the people’s” culture at the mid-century / Natasha Periyan

The common wealth vs. the common good? Race, class, and social citizenship in the welfare state / J. Dillon Brown

The people and the English civil wars / John West

“The scattered million” : the people in British radicalism of the 1790s / Jon Mee

Revolutionary horizons, reformist hopes : anarchism and radical imagination in an era of mass democracy, 1850–1910 / Charlotte Jones

Experiments in left populism : British literature between the wars / Elinor Taylor

Creating the people : history and myth in the national literatures of medieval Britain and Ireland / Helen Fulton

“Art thou base, common and popular?” Shakespearean theatre and the people / Peter Womack

Black people, enslaved populations : registration and rights in the British Caribbean, 1787–1838 / Ramesh Mallipeddi

Ship-worlds : from Victorian “mob” to people’s history / Santanu Das

Dissolving the people / Steven Connor

Exhibiting the people : the great exhibition and the iconography of the masses in mid-Victorian print culture / Ian Haywood

The people’s war : literature and the second world war / Sarah Cole

The voices of the people : literature in the Thatcher years / Joseph Brooker

Devolution, nationalism, and the rhetoric of independence / Nick Hubble

The enemy within : literary writing, popular resistance, and the contemporary / Mark Steven

The people against the body, queer bodies against the nation / João Florêncio

The people, the masses, and the educated elite or, democracy in the age of the internet / Regenia Gagnier.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: People and British literature

ISBN:

9781009299671

1009299670

OCLC:

1552155109

Publisher Number:

CIPO000304529

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license