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The Newport uprising of 1839 in Wales has a very important significance in chartism and in the 19th century England history. It was the last armed uprising in 19th century England. This theme aims to review the Newport uprising in 1839, and to review the Northern Star and Feargus O’Connor’s roles. I have two results in this theme as follows. Firstly, chartism imagines three myths of violence. The first of these myths is Peterloo, the second- the Reform Bill crisis of 1832, and the third- the French Revolution. During the chartism, the first and second are widespread. But thinking about violence can be marked by the simultaneous presence of all three myths. The thinking about violence of Newport uprising, on terms of chartists, is ambivalences, uncertainties and disavowals. In short, Feargus O’Connor and the Northern Star’s editorials have never initiated the violence. They said it was only the responses against the tyranny. Secondly, the ambivalences, uncertainties and disavowals of violence in Newport uprising are also discovered in Northern Star’s poetry columns. Many poems sang the Newport uprising and its leader John Frost. The poetry columns often have initiated the violence and armed meeting, but they are never advocated the armed uprising. They wanted peace method rather than violence, and yelled Queen’s mercy, sympathy,and harmony between social and home. The poems depict the abolition of class hostility rather than classless society. The poetry columns express ‘moral forces’ rather than ‘physical forces.’
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Newport uprising,the Northern Star,Feargus O’Connor,the myth of Peterloo,Chartism,Chartist John Frost
