Stephen Poole Steve.Poole@uwe.ac.uk
Professor in History and Heritage
4 ‘The instinct for hero worship works blindly’: English radical democrats and the problem of memorialization
Poole, Stephen
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Abstract
Poole’s essay explores a number of historical precedents for today’s debates concerning statuary memorialization. Early-nineteenth-century radicals shared many of the same discussions and tactics that feature in modern controversies over memorial statuary, especially concerning ways of countering the triumphalism and elitism of commemorative projects. The difficulties associated in particular with memorializing progressive causes and subaltern heroes produced responses as varied and unsatisfactory in the nineteenth century as they do today, just as the need to generate and maintain commemorative consensus often produces anodyne and uninspiring memorials.
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Poole, S. (2020). 4 ‘The instinct for hero worship works blindly’: English radical democrats and the problem of memorialization. Patterns of Prejudice, 54(5), 503-512. https://doi.org/10.1080/0031322X.2021.1942402
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Dec 1, 2020 |
Online Publication Date | Aug 18, 2021 |
Publication Date | Dec 1, 2020 |
Deposit Date | Oct 26, 2021 |
Publicly Available Date | Jun 2, 2022 |
Journal | Patterns of Prejudice |
Print ISSN | 0031-322X |
Electronic ISSN | 1461-7331 |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 54 |
Issue | 5 |
Pages | 503-512 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/0031322X.2021.1942402 |
Keywords | Chartism, consensus, Cromwell, Lincoln, monuments, progressive causes, radicalism, Wellington |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/8032484 |
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This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in Patterns of Prejudice. [Poole, S. (2020). "The instinct for hero-worship works blindly": English radical democrats and the problem of memorialisation. Patterns of Prejudice, 54(5), 503-512. https://doi.org/10.1080/0031322X.2021.1942402]. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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