Tom Scriven, Popular Virtue
Continuity and Change in Radical moral politics, 1820-1870
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21991796 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexandra Sippel (Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Miranda (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2108-6559 • E-ISSN: 2108-6559 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/miranda.37754 |
| OpenAlex | W3155504538 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
Tom Scriven's "study looks at the extensive counter culture that resulted from the interchange between the mass agitation for universal suffrage and the campaign for individual improvement" (4). The book opens on the death of Henry Hetherington in 1849 and the various ways in which he embodied the Chartist culture of free thought, teetotalism, vegetarianism and faith in alternative medicines. These are the main avenues that are explored in Popular Virtue's six chapters. Rather than focusing on the Chartists' political campaigns as such, it sheds light on "the moral mindset of Chartism" and on "the practices [this] mentalit require[d] of the movement's supporters" (5). Scriven analyses how they built on the radical optimism of Volney, Godwin or Owen who posited human perfectibility, in order to promote the popular education to self-care they deemed indispensable. The volume follows a chronological organisation, spanning the five decades from the 1820s to the 1860s, even though the many "bifurcations and contradictions" (5) of the movement sometimes render some overlaps inevitable in the book itself
Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Faith · Political radicalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Suffrage · Virtue · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Philosophy · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |