"The Hell that Bigots Frame": Queen Mab, Luddism, and the Rhetoric of Working-Class Revolution.
The article examines the overlaps and interstices between Queen Mab and Luddite rhetoric as promoting corresponding objectives through incompatible means. It reports that Luddites were a radical group of English textile workers and weavers in the 19th century who destroyed weaving machinery as a for...
| Publicado en: | Journal for the Study of Radicalism Vol. 12; no. 2; pp. 55 - 81 |
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Michigan State University Press
Fall2018
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| Sumario: | The article examines the overlaps and interstices between Queen Mab and Luddite rhetoric as promoting corresponding objectives through incompatible means. It reports that Luddites were a radical group of English textile workers and weavers in the 19th century who destroyed weaving machinery as a form of protest. It highlights the rhetoric of working-class revolution of the 19th century. |
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