Classic soil : community, aspiration, and debate in the Bolton region of Lancashire, 1819-1845 / Malcolm Hardman.

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Hardman, Malcolm [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London : Associated University Presses, ©2003.
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372 p. : maps ; 24 cm.

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    • "Classic Soil divides between "Romanticism" and "Reform." The latter exemplifies middle-class alliances toward amelioration, informed and challenged in Bolton by voices from the working classes. The former represents conflicting individual aspirations toward alternatives to that more pedestrian but ultimately more effective pattern of renewal. Terminal points of the book are the Peterloo Massacre of 1819 and the reform of the corn laws of 1846. A pivotal chapter concerns Boltonian-American landscapist Thomas Cole.
    • Like Engels in south Lancashire, young Cole in North America yearns toward an ideogram of "classic perfection," "Arcadia." It was Cole, not Engels, who made the transition to a more mature view, dividing his energies, after 1844, between a radical new empiricism and an iconic transcendentalism that, together, implied an abandonment of the pseudoclassic Arcadia of adolescence."--Jacket.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-341) and index.
    Contents
    • Romanticism
    • The Age of Saturn
    • A Glance at the Map
    • The Devolution of Presbyterianism
    • The Recurrence of Anglicanism
    • Spinning the Encyclopedia
    • Prophecy: The Blincoe Memoir
    • Saturn's Other Child
    • Imperial Precedent
    • From the Atlantis of Muslin to the New Jerusalem: Methodists and Swedenborgians
    • Phantasmagoria: Maria Jane Jewsbury
    • The Mysteries of Isis: Eliza Sharples
    • Utopia, U.S.A.: Thomas Hulme
    • Et in Arcadia Ego: Thomas Cole
    • Reform
    • Classic Soil
    • Liberal and Conservative
    • Mores and Morasses
    • "The Athens of Lancashire"
    • Sustaining Moral Management
    • Class Theater
    • Mythos/Logos
    • Virtue by Analogy
    • A Time for Paternalism
    • The Leopard in a Letter Bag.
    ISBN
    • 0838639666 ((alk. paper))
    • 9780838639665 ((alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2002152745
    OCLC
    50919917
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