Global Dilemmas (eBook)

Imperial Bolton-le-Moors from the Hungry Forties to the Death of Leverhulme

Malcolm Hardman (Autor)

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2017
434 Seiten
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61147-903-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Global Dilemmas documents the cultural debates of a key community of the British Empire from the 1840s to 1925. It completes the account of its printed legacy as pioneer of Reformation, Parliamentary Reform, and Industrial Revolution begun in A Kingdom in Two Parishes and continued in Classic Soil.

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No more than there can be time without space can there be history without locality. This book takes a road less traveled into a locality that provides fresh insights into our global dilemmas.Bolton-le-Moors was a global center of cotton, coal, and engineering, whose factory engines were the beating heart of the Victorian world. Commanding the widest range of trades of any town in the Empire, it specialized in papermaking, from pawn tickets to banknotes, via newspapers and syndicated fiction. Responsive to locality, yet world-aware, its many independent writers shared a creative forum with authors like Wordsworth, Tennyson, Ruskin, Gaskell, Charlotte Bront, Tolstoy, Whitman, Thomas Hardy, T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf. Other ';locals' include mathematician Thomas Kirkman, ';father of design theory,' Thomas Moran, painter of the American ';New West,' Charles Holden, the Empire's leading Modern architect. Bolton's printed culture was founded on traditions that made it a bulwark of parliamentary puritanism in the days of Reformation and Civil War. These traditions increasingly confronted global dilemmas that the town's own inventiveness and entrepreneurship had helped create: yet its high moorlands also provided a breathing space to generate imaginative spiritual, political, and practical remedies. Global Dilemmas completes the account of Bolton writing initiated in A Kingdom in Two Parishes and continued in Classic Soil: an arc of discourse from Thomas Lever (1521-77), whose social experiments provided the model for the Protestant colonization of the New World, to his kinsman W. H. Lever (Lord Leverhulme), sincere Christian, world capitalist, progressive social thinker, and (pursuing the logic of profit) exploiter of Conrad's African ';heart of darkness.'

Autor

Malcolm Hardman was a director of graduate studies, University of Warwick, and chairman of the Ruskin Society.

Inhalt

SECTION ONE: VictorianPart One: FamineRecognitionNew Political Conditions“The Irish Emergency” During the Cotton Famine Part Two: Bread upon the WatersA Miracle of Design?Fight and WeaveSECTION TWO: ModernPart Three: SocialismThree Bolton Socialists: Wallace, Johnston, ClarkeThe Power of AssociationPrivileged ImpressionsFresh Impressions Part Four: AdvertisingThe Pity of WarBeyond Self-HelpThree Bolton Capitalists: Tillotson, Thomasson, LeverReference List

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.10.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 12 Illustrations including: - 10 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 2 Maps.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Literary Studies • Nineteeth-century Literature • Nineteeth-century Studies • Religious Studies • Twentieth-Century Literature • Twentieth-century Studies
• ISBN-10: 1-61147-903-7 / 1611479037
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61147-903-4 / 9781611479034