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The Gospel of Social Discontent: Religious Language and the Narrative of Christian Election in the Chartist Poetry of Thomas Cooper, Ernest Jones and William James Linton.

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Title/Author:	The Gospel of Social Discontent: Religious Language and the Narrative of Christian Election in the Chartist Poetry of Thomas Cooper, Ernest Jones and William James Linton./
Author:	Vickers, Roy.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2004,
Description:	328 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 70-12, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International70-12A.
Subject:	Secularism. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=U219510
ISBN:	9798582547747

The Gospel of Social Discontent: Religious Language and the Narrative of Christian Election in the Chartist Poetry of Thomas Cooper, Ernest Jones and William James Linton.
Vickers, Roy.

The Gospel of Social Discontent: Religious Language and the Narrative of Christian Election in the Chartist Poetry of Thomas Cooper, Ernest Jones and William James Linton. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2004 - 328 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 70-12, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Liverpool John Moores University (United Kingdom), 2004.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Chartist poetry has received attention from critics on several key fronts, notably its political agendas, its literary development between the inception and demise of Chartism, and its relationship to canonical literature, particularly romanticism. This thesis focuses on the importance of Christianity to Chartist poetry. It assesses the symbolism of its Christian language, the role of religious discourses in the construction of Chartist cultural and political identity and subsequently the ways in which the audiences of Chartist poems are addressed. It focuses on poetry by three of the most prominent Chartist poets, Thomas Cooper, Ernest Jones and William James Linton, with respect to the operation of one specific Christian idea; the selection by God of an individual or group to a particular task or ministry, termed throughout this thesis the narrative of Christian election. This mythic structure provides a rich interpretive potential and is used by these writers in a variety of ways.I explore the tensions between the religious connotations of Christian election and the radical-democratic resonances ascribed to it, with regard to two major aspects of that narrative. The first concerns how these Chartists came to understand themselves as poets, political leaders and visionaries. I argue that they all understood and represented to themselves their attainment of literary status by considering themselves elected as poets. The narrative of Christian election provided a way for them to legitimate themselves as poets, articulating through poetry their personal relationship with their literary influences. The second is to do with the literary and political objectives these poets imagined and set out to achieve. These poets wrote a `theology of liberation' into their poetry that expressed how Chartist political and social goals could be attained. In so doing they wrote against the political quietism of orthodox religion, sought to raise the consciousness of the working classes and promoted the political destiny of the rank and file Chartists. The thesis also argues that Christian election provided a cultural and political model for rank and file Chartists that offered a structural and symbolic way of understanding the relationship between the individual, their allotted cultural and political tasks and the social body to which they were to contribute.

ISBN: 9798582547747Subjects--Topical Terms:

660507
Secularism.
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Chartism

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