Popular Virtue Continuity and Change in Radical Moral Politics, 1820-70

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Politics, society, and culture in Chartist historiography -- From Freethought to social democracy -- Notes -- 1 A 'Radical Underworld'?: The infidel roots of Chartist culture -- Chartism's infidel roots -- Moral populism in the Radical press -- From anti-clerical satire to social Radicalism -- Sexual heterodoxy as entertainment -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2 Politics and everyday life in early Chartism -- Chartism, festivity, and 'taproom politics' -- The politicisation and mobilisation of everyday life -- Emotions and the turn towards violence -- Sexuality and humour in the provinces -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 From insurrection to the 'little republic of the home' -- The experience of Chartist prisoners -- New trajectories: the delineation of moral improvement after 1840 -- Vincent, Godwin, and teetotalism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 Medicine, popular science, and Chartism's improvement culture -- 'Self-culture' and teetotalism -- The democratisation of medicine, 1838-42 -- Phreno-mesmerism and popular science after 1842 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 Communal self-improvement after the 'disasters of the Strike' -- The 1842 strikewave -- The Land Plan and ethical Radicalism -- Food and health in the Land Plan -- The Land, education, and improvement -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 The fragmented legacies of Chartist moral politics -- La république démocratique et social: late Chartism and the return to moral populism -- Moral improvement and the Reform League -- Self-help, moral improvement, and capital -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Archival sources -- Online archives -- British Library, London -- Labour History Archive and Study Centre, People's History Museum, Manchester