The Life and Literary Pursuits of Allen Davenport

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-138-33741-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 142 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 219 mm, Gewicht: 331 g

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1994, this volume features an autobiography of Allen Davenport, a key figure linking Chartism with the French Revolution, along with some of his selected works. Davenport was an important propagandist for agrarian reform, a critical follower of Robert Owen, one of the first male supporters of the feminist causes and birth control and a leading member of the revolutionary underground movement in Regency London. He was a prolific author, political journalist and poet. His autobiography, published in 1845, has long been presumed lost - historians have had to make do with tantalising fragments from contemporary reviews. When a copy was found in Nashville in 1982 it was immediately recognised as a unique source of information about nineteenth-century popular politics. This volume reprints the complete text with editorial apparatus and supplemented by a careful selection of Davenport's other writing by Dr Malcolm Chase. The Life and Literary Pursuits of Allen Davenport thus gives a unique insight into the cultural and political life of England in the crowded years between Peterloo and Chartism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chase, Malcolm

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Life and Literary Pursuits of Allen Davenport. 2. Editorial Afterword. 3. A Further Selection from the Works of Allen Davenport.

Über Autor(innen)

Malcolm Chase has published widely on agrarian radicalism and related topics; he is the author of The People's Farm: English Radical Agrarianism, 1775-1840, OUP, 1988.