The Rhetoric of Agitation and Control in the Chartist Movement in England, 1837-1848

• Main Author: McGee, Carla Creighton
• Other Authors: Stupp, Vicki O.
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: North Texas State University 1974
• Subjects: working class movement; rhetoric; Chartism.; Social conflict.
• Online Access: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc663071/

Chapter I includes a description of the Chartist Movement and discusses the criteria found in John W. Bowers and Donovan J. Och's Rhetoric of Agitation and Control that were used to analyze the agitation and control groups of the movement. Chapter II describes the ideologies of both groups. Chapter III analyzes the rhetorical strategies of the agitation group: petition, solidification, promulgation, polarization, non-violent resistance, and confrontation-escalation, and the strategies of the control group: avoidance and suppression. Chapter IV concludes that Chartist agitators effectively used rhetorical strategies; however, the control strategy of suppression was stronger and brought about the demise of Chartism.