A ‘Barbarous’ Trade
Early-Nineteenth-Century Broadsides in Social and Historical Context
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23451129 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kate Bates (Liverpool John Moores University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Pages | 41-86 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Crime, Broadsides and Social Change, 1800-1850 (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/978-1-137-59789-2_3 |
| OpenAlex | W3007821901 |
| ISBN | 9781137597892 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
This chapter will investigate the social and historical context of nineteenth-century crime and execution broadsides which represent a unique era in the history of this form of street literature. The main aim will be to challenge the assumption that these broadsides are evidence of state-authorised social control by investigating who actually wrote, produced and distributed them. This chapter will therefore look in detail at the nineteenth-century broadside trade, which was overwhelmingly working class, and in particular focus on the printers, authors and sellers of crime broadsides. It will also examine the readership of broadsides and chart the immense popularity and impact broadsides had in the early part of the century. Issues such as working-class literacy, competition between broadsides and newspapers, and middle-class attitudes to broadsides will be discussed and challenged. The central argument will be that broadsides can be viewed as authentically working class and, therefore, representative of their values and beliefs.
Archaeology · Art · Broadside · Context (archaeology) · Literature · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History
Literacy and Popular Culture
The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
Discourses of criminality in the eighteenth-century press
Newspaper reporting and attitudes to crime and justice in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century London
Literacy and Education in England 1640-19001
Apprehending the Criminal
John Pitts
The Story of Street Literature
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |