Radical Artisan: William James Linton 1812-97
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good, some foxing. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good.
Few figures in Victorian England embodied the restless marriage of art and political conviction as completely as William James Linton — engraver, poet, republican agitator, and tireless champion of the working class. F. B. Smith's biography chronicles the full arc of Linton's extraordinary life, from his formative years in the radical ferment of 1830s London to his later decades in the United States, where he continued to ply his craft and his convictions with undiminished energy. Set against the sweeping backdrop of nineteenth-century political reform, Chartism, and the transatlantic exchange of radical ideas, the narrative reconstructs a life lived always at the intersection of beauty and dissent. Smith writes with the precision of a trained historian and the eye of someone genuinely captivated by his subject, drawing on a wealth of primary sources to present Linton not merely as a peripheral figure but as a central actor in the cultural and political life of his age. The book illuminates the profound ways in which art and activism were inseparable in the Victorian radical imagination, and asks whether such a synthesis is ever truly possible without personal cost. Those who encounter Linton's story will find themselves wondering how so significant a life could have slipped so quietly from the pages of history.
Author: F B Smith
Format: Hardback
Published: 1973, Manchester University Press / Rowman and Littlefield
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good, some foxing. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good.
Few figures in Victorian England embodied the restless marriage of art and political conviction as completely as William James Linton — engraver, poet, republican agitator, and tireless champion of the working class. F. B. Smith's biography chronicles the full arc of Linton's extraordinary life, from his formative years in the radical ferment of 1830s London to his later decades in the United States, where he continued to ply his craft and his convictions with undiminished energy. Set against the sweeping backdrop of nineteenth-century political reform, Chartism, and the transatlantic exchange of radical ideas, the narrative reconstructs a life lived always at the intersection of beauty and dissent. Smith writes with the precision of a trained historian and the eye of someone genuinely captivated by his subject, drawing on a wealth of primary sources to present Linton not merely as a peripheral figure but as a central actor in the cultural and political life of his age. The book illuminates the profound ways in which art and activism were inseparable in the Victorian radical imagination, and asks whether such a synthesis is ever truly possible without personal cost. Those who encounter Linton's story will find themselves wondering how so significant a life could have slipped so quietly from the pages of history.