ISBN: 0838639666

[SR: 2723759], Hardcover, [EAN: 9780838639665], Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr, Book, [PU: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr], Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr, Based on tw… More...

[SR: 2723759], Hardcover, [EAN: 9780838639665], Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr, Book, [PU: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr], Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr, Based on twenty years? research, Classic Soil explores one hundred square miles of industrialized south Lancashire during the early nineteenth century through contemporary local writings. Occupying a corner of this area was its market centre: the adjacent townships of Great and Little Bolton, comprising one of the most densely populated districts of the United Kingdom, divided by rival political and religious traditions. Bolton was the centre of deep-rooted traditions of reform, particularly with its ?Jacobin? elements, rooted in centuries of opposition to local landlords and the established church, and was home to numerous articulate working-class groups already in vigorous dialogue with local capitalists. 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 class. 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 pseudo-classic Arcadia of adolescence., 4948, England, 9332123011, Great Britain, 4935, Europe, 9, History, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 5035, World, 15812171, Civilization & Culture, 3825131, Expeditions & Discoveries, 4992, Jewish, 11764653011, Maritime History & Piracy, 6343224011, Religious, 16244141, Slavery & Emancipation, 15812211, Women in History, 9, History, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books<

ISBN: 9780838639665

Archive material from Bolton and elsewhere in the U.K. provides the first intimate portrait of a region characterized in 1845 by Friedrich Engels as "classic soil on which English manufac… More...

Archive material from Bolton and elsewhere in the U.K. provides the first intimate portrait of a region characterized in 1845 by Friedrich Engels as "classic soil on which English manufacture has achieved its master work." Other contemporaries called Bolton "the Athens of Lancashire." It was home to inventors Crompton and Arkwright, and an established center of polemical writing (its enemies of the civil-war period dubbed it "Geneva of the North"). Under Romanticism, it saw the boyhood and adolescence of Thomas Cole, America's painter of Arcadias, and bred idealists like-Eliza Sharples, revolutionary advocate of birth control. The Reform Act of 1832 enfranchised Liberal financiers of the Anti-Corn-Law League, drawn from Bolton's "sensational" array of paternalistic capitalists. Actual writings of the participants, in prose and verse, illuminate the strengths and failures of this material and spiritual culture, seedbed for the English-speaking world, whose antecedents were examined in A Kingdom in Two Parishes (FDUP). Malcom Hardman currently holds a personal Readership at Warwick University in England. Media >, [PU: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press]<

2003, ISBN: 9780838639665

Hardcover book. 376 pages. Published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (2003) Media >, [PU: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press]