The 'Natural Leaders' and their World
Politics, Culture and Society in Belfast, c. 1801-1832
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
284 pages
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6 x 9
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© 2012
A richly detailed exploration of the complex urban culture of the Presbyterian elite in late-Georgian Belfast, The ‘Natural Leaders’ and their World offers a major reassessment of the political life of Belfast in the early nineteenth century. Examining the activities of a close-knit group of individuals who sought to reform British and European politics, Jonathan Wright addresses topics such as romanticism, evangelicalism, and altruism, with a look at writers such as Lord Byron, Walter Scott, Robert Owen, and Thomas Chalmers. In doing so, he tells the story of a Presbyterian middle class and the complex entanglement of their political, cultural, and intellectual lives.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Will Tennent’s band of ‘bastards and rebels’: The Tennent family in its contexts
2. The ‘natural leaders’, part one: politics and personalities in Belfast, c.1801–1820
3. The ‘natural leaders’, part two: Belfast, Europe and the age of reform
4. ‘The manhood of the mind’: classicism, romanticism and the politics of culture
5. ‘Thank-offerings to the God of providence’: philanthropy, evangelicalism and social change
Conclusion
Appendices
Select Bibliography
Index
Appendices
Select Bibliography
Index
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