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"“God is our guide! our cause is just!"” The National Chartist Hymn Book and Victorian Hymnody
Ist Teil von
Victorian studies, 2012-06, Vol.54 (4), p.679-705
Ort / Verlag
Bloomington: Indiana University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2012
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE Journals
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Despite the undeniable influence of hymns in Victorian culture, hymnody has
remained a neglected field of criticism in Victorian studies, having been
largely restricted by the conception that Victorian hymns reflected or
perpetuated conservative social attitudes. This essay examines the contents of a
previously unknown hymnal, the National Chartist Hymn Book, in
an effort to make room in the critical understanding of Victorian hymnody for
radical and working-class hymns and for what I argue was a distinctive Chartist
theology. These politically conscious hymns capture the tension between
Chartism's own religious sensibility and Chartist attitudes toward
religious institutions. Their imagery centers on political and economic
antagonisms rather than the visions of heaven and unified nature that
characterize conventional Victorian hymns. I argue that Chartist hymnody is also
marked by a complex relationship with Romanticism, which generates a Chartist
theology that prioritizes communal feeling and action over individual
subjectivity.