{"title":"‘Rise Now from Your Slumber’: Ballads and Songs of Peterloo","authors":"Alison Morgan","doi":"10.1080/09524142.2021.1972577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09524142.2021.1972577","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the months following the Peterloo Massacre, an array of poems and songs was published in radical newspapers or as broadside ballads, the first of which appeared in the Manchester Observer a mere five days after the event. What is of import regarding Peterloo's literature is the speed with which it was written and published as well as the range of genres used by the largely anonymous balladeers to convey the outrage, horror and despair felt by the majority of English people at the slaughter of their fellow citizens. This article explores a selection of Peterloo songs, focusing both on their initial publication and longer-lasting impact on radical discourse not only demonstrating that they were not as ephemeral as the publications in which they were first printed, but also indicating the wider significance of Peterloo to the continuing campaign for democracy. Furthermore, through a joint project with musicians as part of the bicentennial commemorations, new life has been breathed into these songs, enabling the voices from 200 years ago to both inform and inspire audiences in an era in which democracy is under siege and xenophobic nationalism on the rise.","PeriodicalId":41387,"journal":{"name":"KEATS-SHELLEY REVIEW","volume":"35 1","pages":"138 - 148"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44001697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perspectives on Peterloo at 200: Construing and Representing the Event","authors":"M. Canani","doi":"10.1080/09524142.2021.1972574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09524142.2021.1972574","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The tragedy that became crystallized in cultural memory as ‘Peterloo’ provided one of the darkest pages in British history, but also one of the best documented nineteenth-century events. The interest of the press, and the large number of participants, produced a polyphonic, multifarious corpus made of reports, eyewitness accounts, memoirs and testimonies, as well as poetic and prose texts. As a critical introduction to this monographic issue of The Keats-Shelley Review, the article discusses ‘Peterloo’ as an event whose historical and sociopolitical significance is also dependent on its manifold representations across time, genres, and discourses. Both factual or fictional, texts, it is suggested, contributed to construing Peterloo as an event by interrogating and emplotting facts, thus determining their shape and significance.","PeriodicalId":41387,"journal":{"name":"KEATS-SHELLEY REVIEW","volume":"35 1","pages":"116 - 124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42690613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reading Peterloo as Social Practice: the Lexical Representation of Social Actors in Three London-based Papers","authors":"A. Anselmo","doi":"10.1080/09524142.2021.1977512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09524142.2021.1977512","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article provides a keyword in context analysis of three editorials published in London-based papers regarding the events of 16 August 1819 in Manchester: one daily paper, The Courier, and two weeklies, Sherwin’s Political Register and The Examiner. It aims to offer lexical evidence of the struggle for the cultural-political appropriation and representation of Peterloo ‘in public consciousness’. To this end, insights from critical discourse analysis, specifically social actor theory, are used, and elements of rhetorical and argumentative analysis are presented.","PeriodicalId":41387,"journal":{"name":"KEATS-SHELLEY REVIEW","volume":"35 1","pages":"169 - 187"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45085204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Peterloo and ‘Fairburn’s Editions’","authors":"Gary M. Kelly","doi":"10.1080/09524142.2021.1972576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09524142.2021.1972576","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT John Fairburn's London firm published cheap print of many kinds, though often with a reformist political bent, over half a century from the 1790s. Among this prolific output was a poem entitled The Field of Waterloo in the year of that event. In price and address, however, this was somewhat of an outlier in their mass of sixpenny pamphlets. This essay examines the rhetorical and stylistic features of this pamphlet and its several contexts in the ongoing paper war over the French Revolution and its Napoleonic and post-Napoleonic aftermath. These contexts include the formation of a distinctive plebeian modernity, Fairburn’s usual stock in trade, as a form of cultural citizenship grounding claims to the political franchise.","PeriodicalId":41387,"journal":{"name":"KEATS-SHELLEY REVIEW","volume":"35 1","pages":"149 - 157"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46600657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Awarding the Peterloo Medal: The Radical Free Press and the Manchester Massacre, 1819-1821","authors":"Franca Dellarosa","doi":"10.1080/09524142.2021.1972579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09524142.2021.1972579","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the aftermath of the Peterloo massacre, the ongoing collaboration between William Hone and George Cruikshank in the milieu of the London-based radical press resulted in a number of wildly satirical hybrid publications, including A Slap at Slop and the Bridge Street Gang, a dazzling parody of a four-page daily newspaper (1821). In a unique combination of text and image, the two mock newspaper entries dealing with the Peterloo events lay bare the abysmal power logic underlying the making of that tragedy, and construct a scathing indictment of both state violence and the pervasive rhetoric of self-celebration underlying the exercise of state power. Building on the expanding scholarship on William Hone and radical print culture, this article addresses some questions implied in the debunking process these texts enact, which reach back to include war and abolitionist rhetoric, as well as Robert Southey’s role as Poet Laureate.","PeriodicalId":41387,"journal":{"name":"KEATS-SHELLEY REVIEW","volume":"35 1","pages":"188 - 199"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44915040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"P. B. Shelley’s The Mask of Anarchy between Ethics and Politics","authors":"Lilla Maria Crisafulli","doi":"10.1080/09524142.2021.1972575","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09524142.2021.1972575","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay aims to discuss Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem The Mask of Anarchy within its historical context and in relation to contemporary critical debates. The paper intends to explore Shelley’s own response to the arbitrary power that engendered the violence of the Peterloo Massacre on 10 August 1819, during a demonstration in favour of Parliamentary reform. The essay opens by recalling the remarkable phenomenon of the radical free press that was produced in reaction to Peterloo, giving rise to what has been called a ‘culture of resistance’. It then attempts to explore the intricacy of Shelley’s own ideological views, together with the creative process that enabled him to turn The Mask of Anarchy into a visionary poem, both aesthetically autonomous and politically interventionist.","PeriodicalId":41387,"journal":{"name":"KEATS-SHELLEY REVIEW","volume":"35 1","pages":"125 - 137"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49374876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Talking about Peterloo: Manifold Oratory Speeches during the Romantic Period","authors":"Serena Baiesi","doi":"10.1080/09524142.2021.1972573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09524142.2021.1972573","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Romantic era heralded a new age of rhetoric in which the spoken word was cultivated into a truly eloquent form: the art of oratory. Such forms of expression – used both within and beyond the realm of parliamentary debates – were frequently adopted by radical speakers, who sought to promote freedom of speech and advocated for the working class to be granted more rights. At a time when the English government imposed strict censorship measures on the people, the art of oratory became a powerful tool of resistance, especially for radicals, Dissenters, intellectuals and activists. In this article, I discuss the rhetorical strategies that were employed by three types of orators from different social classes: politicians, female activists, and radicals from the Midlands. All of these figures played crucial roles in influencing public opinion both before and during the ‘Peterloo Massacre’. In fact, the rhetorical strategies and symbols used by orators at St. Peter’s field are still pertinent today. Many of these hallmarks of oratory can be discerned in the speeches that are delivered to modern audiences. Most notably, such rhetorical devices are still used by protesters and campaigners on an international scale in order to effect social change and to combat social inequality.","PeriodicalId":41387,"journal":{"name":"KEATS-SHELLEY REVIEW","volume":"35 1","pages":"200 - 211"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49025205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Keats, Peterloo and Seriality","authors":"S. Swift","doi":"10.1080/09524142.2021.1972578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09524142.2021.1972578","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article offers a counter-intuitive attempt to read the events of August 1819 in relation to the phenomenon of seriality. Departing from the Revolutionary tradition of the journée, and therefore perhaps not really a bounded ‘event’ at all, Peterloo was instead, in James Chandler’s account in England in 1819, an ongoing breach in systems of representation. I argue that analyses of popular serial forms in media studies, which emphasize the open-endedness of seriality, can help to account for some of the peculiarities of the treatment of time and happening in post-Peterloo poems by John Keats and (more marginally) by P. B. Shelley. Situating these poems in relation to early forms of serial perception in the period, and to Marx and Baudelaire’s later Romantic approaches to seriality in the wake of the 1848 Revolution, I argue that seriality can help us to understand the ways in which lyric poems meet revolutionary thought in their shared questioning of the hyperbolic breach in historical time that we associate with each of them.","PeriodicalId":41387,"journal":{"name":"KEATS-SHELLEY REVIEW","volume":"35 1","pages":"158 - 168"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43518398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is the Criticism of John Keats’s Doctors Justified? A Bicentenary Re-Appraisal","authors":"S. Hughes, N. Snell","doi":"10.1080/09524142.2021.1911181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09524142.2021.1911181","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT John Keats died of consumption in Italy on 23 February 1821. He was treated both in London and in Rome by eminent physicians who have over time been criticized for failing to diagnose that Keats had pulmonary tuberculosis. The evidence for this censure, from the letters of Keats and his companions, along with the publications of Dr James Clark, his physician in Rome, is reviewed and the contemporary treatment of consumption in the early part of the nineteenth century is analysed. We argue that Keats’s doctors have been unfairly castigated by modern scholars and that in fact they applied the medical advice for the treatment of consumption that was available at that time.","PeriodicalId":41387,"journal":{"name":"KEATS-SHELLEY REVIEW","volume":"35 1","pages":"41 - 55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09524142.2021.1911181","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41391199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}