Poetry and Popular Protest

Peterloo, Cato Street and the Queen Caroline Controversy

• Author(s): J. Gardner,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 272
• ISBN_10: 023030737X
  ISBN_13: 9780230307377
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / Poetry , Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory , Social Science / General , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / Modern / 19th Century , Literary Criticism / Modern / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / General , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Literary Criticism / General ,

Description:... This book provides provocative information on poetry written in response to the most revolutionary set of events seen in Britain since the 1640s: 'Peterloo', a peaceful protest that became a massacre; 'Cato Street', a government scripted rebellion; and the 'Queen Caroline Controversy', when the estranged wife of George IV tried to claim her crown.