Introduction 1. The Chartist imaginary: 'talking by turns of politics and poetry' 2. Chartist poetry and literary history 3. 'A jackass load of poetry': The Northern Star's poetry column 1838-52 4. Insurrectionary sonnets: the ideological afterlife of the Newport uprising 5. 'Merry England': memory and nostalgia in the year of the mass strike 6. 'The future-hastening storm': Chartist poetry in 1848 7. Constellating Chartist poetry: Gerald Massey, Walter Benjamin and the uses of messianism Appendix A: three Chartist poems Appendix B: details of poetry published in the poetry column of the Northern Star.
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