| Global Dilemmas: Imperial Bolton-le-Moors from the Hungry Forties to the Death of Leverhulme Contributor(s): Hardman, Malcolm (Author) |
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ISBN: 1611479029 ISBN-13: 9781611479027 Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press OUR PRICE: $138.60 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century - Literary Criticism | Books & Reading - Literary Criticism | Subjects & Themes - Religion |
| Dewey: 942.737 |
| LCCN: 2017025229 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" (1.90 lbs) 434 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
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| Publisher Description: No more than there can be time without space can there be history without locality. This book takes a road less traveled into a locality that provides fresh insights into our global dilemmas. Bolton-le-Moors was a global center of cotton, coal, and engineering, whose factory engines were the beating heart of the Victorian world. Commanding the widest range of trades of any town in the Empire, it specialized in papermaking, from pawn tickets to banknotes, via newspapers and syndicated fiction. Responsive to locality, yet world-aware, its many independent writers shared a creative forum with authors like Wordsworth, Tennyson, Ruskin, Gaskell, Charlotte Bront , Tolstoy, Whitman, Thomas Hardy, T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf. Other "locals" include mathematician Thomas Kirkman, "father of design theory," Thomas Moran, painter of the American "New West," Charles Holden, the Empire's leading Modern architect. Bolton's printed culture was founded on traditions that made it a bulwark of parliamentary puritanism in the days of Reformation and Civil War. These traditions increasingly confronted global dilemmas that the town's own inventiveness and entrepreneurship had helped create: yet its high moorlands also provided a breathing space to generate imaginative spiritual, political, and practical remedies. Global Dilemmas completes the account of Bolton writing initiated in A Kingdom in Two Parishes and continued in Classic Soil: an arc of discourse from Thomas Lever (1521-77), whose social experiments provided the model for the Protestant colonization of the New World, to his kinsman W. H. Lever (Lord Leverhulme), sincere Christian, world capitalist, progressive social thinker, and (pursuing the logic of profit) exploiter of Conrad's African "heart of darkness." |