'The people' and British literature : belonging, exclusion, and democracy / edited by Benjamin Kohlmann, Matthew Taunton.
| Other author | Kohlmann, Benjamin, 1981- editor. |
| Other author | Taunton, Matthew editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2026. |
| Copyright Date | ©2026 |
| Description | xvii, 402 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Cambridge themes in British literature and culture Cambridge themes in British literature and culture. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | Writing the commons, c. 1400 / Andrew Galloway -- States of peace : anti-war thought within and beyond the nation in the eighteenth century / Andrea Haslanger -- Antisemitism, sex, and citizenship : G.W.M. Reynolds and Chartism / Ella Dzelzainis -- Meritocracy, adult education, and "the people's" culture at the mid-century / Natasha Periyan -- The common wealth vs. the common good? Race, class, and social citizenship in the welfare state / J. Dillon Brown -- The people and the English civil wars / John West -- "The scattered million" : the people in British radicalism of the 1790s / Jon Mee -- Revolutionary horizons, reformist hopes : anarchism and radical imagination in an era of mass democracy, 1850-1910 / Charlotte Jones -- Experiments in left populism : British literature between the wars / Elinor Taylor -- Creating the people : history and myth in the national literatures of medieval Britain and Ireland / Helen Fulton -- "Art thou base, common and popular?" Shakespearean theatre and the people / Peter Womack -- Black people, enslaved populations : registration and rights in the British Caribbean, 1787-1838 / Ramesh Mallipeddi -- Ship-worlds : from Victorian "mob" to people's history / Santanu Das -- Dissolving the people / Steven Connor -- Exhibiting the people : the great exhibition and the iconography of the masses in mid-Victorian print culture / Ian Haywood -- The people's war : literature and the second world war / Sarah Cole -- The voices of the people : literature in the Thatcher years / Joseph Brooker -- Devolution, nationalism, and the rhetoric of independence / Nick Hubble -- The enemy within : literary writing, popular resistance, and the contemporary / Mark Steven -- The people against the body, queer bodies against the nation / João Florêncio -- The people, the masses, and the educated elite or, democracy in the age of the internet / Regenia Gagnier. |
| Abstract | "This book ranges across historical periods to offer a comprehensive and much-needed critical prehistory of contemporary invocations of 'the people' in political discourse and public debate. In doing so, the twenty-three essays also build on ideas and methods from other disciplines, such as political theory, sociology, and media history"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion 'The people' and british literature Cambridge ;New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2026 9781009299671 |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9781009299671 |
| Genre/form | Essays. |
| Genre/form | Literary criticism. |
| Genre/form | Critiques littéraires. |
| LCCN | 2025021073 |
| ISBN | 9781009299688 |
| ISBN | 1009299689 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781009299664 paperback |
| ISBN | 1009299662 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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