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- Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1830s
- Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition
- Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1830s
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 On the Eve
- Chapter 2 ‘An Infectious Madness’
- Chapter 3 Augustus Hardin Beaumont, Slavery Apologias, and Popular Radical Literature in the 1830s
- Chapter 4 Patterns of Industry
- Chapter 5 Mother Earth
- Chapter 6 The Polite Fictions of Slavery
- Chapter 7 Suffering, Sentiment, and the Rise of Humanitarian Literature in the 1830s
- Chapter 8 Steam and Iron in the 1830s
- Chapter 9 Lithography and the Comic Image 1825–1840
- Chapter 10 Jorrocks’s Canon
- Chapter 11 Tennyson, Dickens, Poe, Browning, and the Brontës:Blackwood’s Magazine and ‘The Foreheads of a New Generation’
- Chapter 12 Boz in London: The 1830s and the Urban Turn in the English Novel
- Chapter 13 Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Chronicler of the 1830s
- Chapter 14 Railway Imaginary in the 1830s
- Chapter 15 The Emerging Language of Photography
- Afterword
- Index
Chapter 1 - On the Eve
William Benbow, Francis Macerone, and the Transmission of Revolution
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 May 2024
- Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1830s
- Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition
- Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1830s
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 On the Eve
- Chapter 2 ‘An Infectious Madness’
- Chapter 3 Augustus Hardin Beaumont, Slavery Apologias, and Popular Radical Literature in the 1830s
- Chapter 4 Patterns of Industry
- Chapter 5 Mother Earth
- Chapter 6 The Polite Fictions of Slavery
- Chapter 7 Suffering, Sentiment, and the Rise of Humanitarian Literature in the 1830s
- Chapter 8 Steam and Iron in the 1830s
- Chapter 9 Lithography and the Comic Image 1825–1840
- Chapter 10 Jorrocks’s Canon
- Chapter 11 Tennyson, Dickens, Poe, Browning, and the Brontës:Blackwood’s Magazine and ‘The Foreheads of a New Generation’
- Chapter 12 Boz in London: The 1830s and the Urban Turn in the English Novel
- Chapter 13 Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Chronicler of the 1830s
- Chapter 14 Railway Imaginary in the 1830s
- Chapter 15 The Emerging Language of Photography
- Afterword
- Index
Summary
This chapter argues that instead of being a quiet gap between the noise of the post-Waterloo period and the rise of Chartism, the 1830s has its own under-examined, violently radical character. I concentrate on William Benbow and Francis Macerone, who produced inciting revolutionary works including Grand National Holiday and Defensive Instructions for the People, which pointed to the 1830s being a time of class conflict. During the 1820s, Benbow produced cheap editions of poetry for the working classes. However, Grand National Holiday was designed to promote a general strike that would lead to revolution. Colonel Francis Macerone, a revolutionary ultra-radical, created works that would be banned today, such as Defensive Instructions for the People. This pamphlet shows amateurs how to make pikes, bullets, incendiary devices, and bombs, as well as ways to engage in street-fighting against soldiers. I argue that Benbow and Macerone are central figures in pre-Chartist 1830s radicalism and examine the revolutionary early 1830s through their works published on the eve of the Reform Bill.
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- Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1830s , pp. 17 - 37Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024