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Hamlet (place)
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TL;DR: Thomas Cooper's life (1805-1892) encapsulates the tensions and contradictions of Victorian self-help as discussed by the authors, from shoemaker and autodidact, to school teacher, to Methodist circuit rider, to Chartist activist, to prison poet, and finally to working-class lecturer and editor.
Abstract: The improbable course of Thomas Cooper's life (1805–1892) – from shoemaker and autodidact, to school teacher, to Methodist circuit rider, to Chartist activist, to prison poet, and finally to working-class lecturer and editor – encapsulates the tensions and contradictions of Victorian self-help. Fiercely devoted to projects of self-education and improvement, as an apprentice craftsman in Lincolnshire, Cooper memorized Hamlet and significant portions of Paradise Lost , and taught himself Latin, French, and some Hebrew. The publication of The Purgatory of the Suicides , the epic poem for which he is best known, made Cooper a minor celebrity in the world of middle-class literary reformers, who praised his artistic and educational accomplishments. The novelist and Christian socialist Charles Kingsley discerned in his heroic commitment to “the pursuit of knowledge under difficulties” an alternative to political militancy and loosely based Alton Locke , the story of a disillusioned Chartist hero's spiritual redemption, on Cooper's own life (Collins 3–4). Samuel Smiles, the Scottish reformer and author of Self-Help , celebrated Cooper's writing as part of a national culture which could help heal the country's social and economic divisions, arguing that his literary achievements placed him in “the same class as Burns, Ebenezer Elliot, Fox, the Norwich weaver-boy, to say nothing of the Arkwrights, Smeatons, Brindleys, Chantrys, and the like, all rising out of the labour-class into the class of the thinkers and builders-up of English greatness” (Smiles 244).
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TL;DR: Magdoffs' The Age of Imperialism as discussed by the authors was one of the most important works in the history of American foreign policy. But men cannot live by revulsion alone; shattering events intensify the quest for an interpretation which would not glide over the surface, but would try to uncover a method in the madness.
Abstract: The war in Vietnam and many less spectacular ignominies of American foreign policy during the last decades have evoked deep moral revulsion. But men cannot live by revulsion alone; shattering events intensify the quest for an interpretation which would not glide over the surface, but would try to uncover a method in the madness. Among many attempts to meet this need, Harry Magdoffs The Age of Imperialism stands out as one of the most important. During the four years that have passed since its appearance, it has exercised profound influence on the work of young radical scholars, won respectful treatment from the liberal critics, and
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