Thomas Carlyle, Chartism , and the Irish in Early Victorian England

Crowds of miserable Irish darken all our towns. — Chartism T HUS WROTE T HOMAS C ARLYLE in his famous long pamphlet Chartism , published in December 1839. But what moved Carlyle, the intellectual hero of the age, to direct attention in Chartism to the Irish presence in the early Victorian city? Why did he present the Irish in England in such negative terms? Was his analysis correct? And what was the wider significance of his interpretation? These, as Carlyle might have said, are measurable questions and they form the essential framework of this paper. Yet it is impossible to respond to these questions without first examining the contemporary social, economic, and political contexts within which Chartism was written; Carlyle’s development as an historian in the early 1830s; and the purpose of Chartism , including the chapter on the Irish entitled “The Finest Peasantry in the World

Crowds · Interpretation (philosophy · Irish · Media studies · Sociology · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Irish and British Studies · Philosophy

• Idleness and Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815–1900

  Open Access•Richard C Adelman, Richard Adelman•Idleness and Aesthetic…•2018

  Incluir item

• Racial capitalism, hauntology and the politics of death in Ireland

  Edward Molloy•Identities•2021

  Incluir item

• Mass commodity culture and identity

  Open Access•Paul O’leary•Urban History•2008

  Incluir item

• Two new letters from Thomas Carlyle’s Irish journey in 1849

  Amity Jordan•Nineteenth Century Contexts•2023

  Incluir item

• Nationalism and religion in Ireland

  Edward Molloy•Irish Political Studies•2019

  Incluir item

• John Stuart Mill

  Maria Teresa Pichetto•The Tocqueville Review/La revue…•2010

  Incluir item

• Unsaintly Virtue

  James Brown Scott•The Journal of Hindu Studies•2014

  Incluir item

• Blood Transfusions

  Open Access•Amy Martins, Amy Martin et al.•Victorian Literature and Culture•2004

  Incluir item

• Racializing the Irish

  Edward Molloy•Social Identities•2023

  Incluir item

• Making of the English Working Class

  E P Thompson•Making of the English Working Class•2013

  Incluir item

• Immigration and Social Policy in Britain

  Catherine M Jones, Catherine Jones•Immigration and Social Policy in…•2013

  Incluir item

• The Irish in the Victorian City

  Roger Swift, Sheridan Gilley•Irish in the Victorian City•2021

  Incluir item

• Emigrants and Exiles

  Lawrence J Mccaffrey, Kerby A Miller•The American Historical Review•1986

  Incluir item

• Irish immigration and the 'condition of England' question

  Donald Macraild•Immigrants & Minorities•1995

  Incluir item

• Apes and Angels

  Giovanni Costigan, L Perry Curtis•The American Historical Review•1972

  Incluir item

• The Garibaldi Riots Of 1862

  Open Access•Sheridan Gilley•The Historical Journal•1973

  Incluir item

• The Irish in Nineteenth-Century Britain

  Open Access•M A G Ó Tuathaigh•Transactions of the Royal…•1981

  Incluir item

• Irish Catholicism and the Great Famine

  Darryl W Miller•Journal of Social History•1975

  Incluir item

• The Age of Equipoise

  Margaret Hewitt, W L Burns et al.•British Journal of Sociology•1965

  Incluir item

• The Standard of Living in Britain in the Industrial Revolution

  T R Gourvish, Andrew J Taylor•The Economic History Review•1976

  Incluir item

• Before the Welfare State. Social Administration in Early Industrial Britain

  Duncan Bythell, Ursula R Q Henriques et al.•The Economic History Review•1980

  Incluir item