Living and learning : essays in honour of J.F.C. Harrison

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Living and learning : essays in honour of J.F.C. Harrison

edited by Malcolm Chase and Ian Dyck

Scolar Press, c1996

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John Harrison, a bibliography: p. [252]-255

Includes bibliographical references and index

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This original collection of critical essays on key issues of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century rural life, popular politics and beliefs brings together fifteen historians of the first rank. All have been closely associated with the influential figure of J. F. C. Harrison, and all share an interest in the importance of the intimately personal in history, as opposed to the history of impersonal institutions. Among the essays on popular belief are studies of millenarianism, the secularist tradition and a fascinating case study of American Muggletonianism - the last by the late E. P. Thompson. Other important essays address Chartism, gender and autobiography, vegetarianism and popular journalism. There are critical evaluations of the influence of America on British radicalism and socialism, on the motives that drove workers' children to become teachers, and on the construction of images of English rural life.

Table of Contents

  • Contents: Notes on Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • John Harrison: An Appreciation, The Editors
  • A New Jerusalem: The Elusive Dream, William Lamont
  • Roger Gibson and American Muggletonianism, E P Thompson
  • The Antinomian Methodists, Peter Lineham
  • Prophesying Revolution: "Mad Lord George", Edmund Burke and Madame La Motte, Iain McCalman
  • The Example of America a Warning to England? The Transformation of America in British Radicalism and Socialism, 1790-1850, Gregory Claeys
  • The Town and Country Divide in English History, Ian Dyck
  • Popular Preaching and Millennial Expectations: The Reverend Robert Aitken and the Christian Society, 1836-1840, Malcolm R Thorp
  • Who Were "The People" in 1842, Dorothy Thompson
  • "We Wish Only to Work for Ourselves": The Chartist Land Plan, Malcolm Chase
  • "Temperance in All Things": Vegetarianism, the Manx Press and the Alternative Agenda of Reform in the 1840s, John Belchem
  • Will the Real Mary Lovett Please Stand Up? Chartism, Gender and Autobiography, Eileen Yeo
  • The Mysteries of G W M Reynolds: Radicalism and Melodrama in Victorian Britain, Rohan McWilliam
  • Owenism and the Secularist Tradition: The Huddersfield Secular Society and Sunday School, Edward Royle
  • From Hodge to Lob: Reconstructing the English Farm Labourer, 1870-1914, Alun Howkins
  • Deciding to Teach: The Making of Elementary School Teachers in the Twentieth Century, Phil Gardner
  • John Harrison: A Bibliography
  • Index.

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