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Poetry and popular protest: Peterloo, Cato Street and the Queen Caroline controversy

Part of the Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print series
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This book provides provocative information on poetry written in response to the most revolutionary set of events seen in Britain since the 1640s: 'Peterloo', a peaceful protest that became a massacre; 'Cato Street', a government scripted rebellion; and the 'Queen Caroline Controversy', when the estranged wife of George IV tried to claim her crown.

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Palgrave Macmillan
023030737X / 9780230307377
eBook (Adobe Pdf)
31/05/2011
England
English
272 pages
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