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• W244680696 abstract "William Cobbett (1762-1835) was variously a soldier, journalist, grammarian, agriculturalist, agitator, economist, ecologist, and finally, just prior to his death, an M.P. from Oldham in the first post-Reform Parliament. Unfortunately, there is no Collected Works, partially because any would-be editor would have to be a similar polymath, familiar with both the laws of nature and those of men. In fact, the only lacunae in Cobbett's intellectual development would seem to have been the arts and languages of antiquity, and even here, his deficiency would seem to have been at least partially part of an anti-intellectual pose which distinguished him from the Whig establishment. Throughout his life, Cobbett was continually in and out of both civil and criminal litigation, actually serving time for both sedition and debt in the wake of a lost libel suit. His audience of choice, no matter what the genre, was always the land-bound working man, and hence instruction (in grammar, beer-brewing, animal husbandry) was invariably mixed with agitation for political causes. Cobbett was a revolutionary thinker in many respects, and yet his enemy was invariably Government itself rather than any specific political formula. For Cobbett, as for Reaganomics, the object was always smaller government and lower taxation. Only in this way could money used to support a bloated bureaucracy be re-cycled to the land in the form of lower rents, thereby maintaining agricultural value, both economic and presumably, moral, as well. Although omitted from his complaints, such a redistribution of income would also maintain the class of(often aristocratic) landlords. Hence, in some larger sense, the thrust of Cobbett's politics was invariably against the dominant trajectory of early nineteenth-century British politics: the expansion of a middle class and the growth of a financial services sector which promoted international trade (as well as speculation). Nowhere in Cobbett's agitation do we find laments for the quality of urban life (deteriorating fully as rapidly as agricultural life) or the need for public health care and sanitation services. And in this sense, his model for social unity remained quasi-feudal, based upon implicit social obligations. This position serves to link his achievement as a revolutionary reformer closer to of Ruskin and Morris rather than Dickens. In terms of foreign policy, Cobbett was long a supporter of independence for Spain's Latin American colonies, a minority view given the necessity of preserving a solid front against the French threat. In so many ways, however, Rural Rides, begun as a series of journeys in 1822 continued intermittently throughout the remainder of his life, was the culmination of Cobbett's career. The Rides were begun partially as a defensive measure, away to bring a political message had been embargoed by an injunction, to the people directly, as an oral, moving presentation. En route, the journey became ever more allegorical, with Cobbett occasionally catching sight of traces left by the Gothic monster that, in his eyes, was devouring England. Its modus operandi was parasitism, an ability to disguise its presence from the very people among whom it was feasting. At the same time, the massive project, extended to include Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, enabled Cobbett to promulgate his plans for land-reform, which included instruction in how to preserve its values. Hence the interest of the populist economist, the ecologist, and the agronomist all converged in Rural Rides. The genre of the warning ride is a familiar one in the revolutionary literature of many nations, so much so as to have become part of the folklore of revolution itself. William Cobbett's is perhaps unique among examples of the genre. Economy means management, and nothing more ... (1) William Cobbett's Rural Rides commences in medias res of a London fog that you might cut with a knife . …" @default.
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