Popular Virtue: Continuity and Change in Radical Moral Politics, 1820-70
Tom Scriven
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Popular virtue is the first in-depth study of the changing nature of moral politics within working-class Radicalism between 1820 and 1870. Through study of the lives, activism and intellectual influences of a number of key leaders of working-class Radicalism, this book highlights how Radicalism's attitudes to morality and everyday life shifted from a festive and libertarian culture that advocated sexual liberty and gender equality in the 1820s-30s to a more austere and ascetic politics that emphasized moral improvement, temperance and frugality after the 1840s. Despite the fracturing of this culture with the decline of Chartism in the 1850s, Popular virtue ... Read more
Popular virtue is the first in-depth study of the changing nature of moral politics within working-class Radicalism between 1820 and 1870. Through study of the lives, activism and intellectual influences of a number of key leaders of working-class Radicalism, this book highlights how Radicalism's attitudes to morality and everyday life shifted from a festive and libertarian culture that advocated sexual liberty and gender equality in the 1820s-30s to a more austere and ascetic politics that emphasized moral improvement, temperance and frugality after the 1840s. Despite the fracturing of this culture with the decline of Chartism in the 1850s, Popular virtue ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781526114754
SKU
V9781526114754
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99-1
About Tom Scriven
Tom Scriven is Hallsworth Research Fellow at the University of Manchester -- .
Reviews for Popular Virtue: Continuity and Change in Radical Moral Politics, 1820-70
'Tom Scriven has written an important, rewarding, and wide-ranging book...' Matthew Roberts, Sheffield Hallam University, Labour History Review, vol 84 issue 1
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