Tom Scriven, Popular Virtue: Continuity and Change in Radical moral politics, 1820-1870

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9 avril 2021

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Tom Scriven’s “study looks at the extensive counter culture that resulted from the interchange between the mass agitation for universal suffrage and the campaign for individual improvement” (4). The book opens on the death of Henry Hetherington in 1849 and the various ways in which he embodied the Chartist culture of free thought, teetotalism, vegetarianism and faith in alternative medicines. These are the main avenues that are explored in Popular Virtue’s six chapters. Rather than focusing o...

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