Bibliography
Sources primaires
Archives et manuscrits
Home Office Papers, Public Disorder, HO 52, 1834.
Home Office Papers, Civil Petitions and Addresses, HO 54, 1834.
Home Office Papers, Criminal (Rewards and Pardons) Correspondence and Secret Service Reports, HO 64/15, 1834-1837.
Robert Owen Collection, National Co-operative Archive, Manchester.
Publications
Anon., To Unionists, 1834.
Cobbett William, “Mr. Owen”, Black Dwarf, 20 août 1817.
Engels Friedrich, « Lettres de Londres », Schweizerischer Republikaner, n°46, 9 juin 1843, in Bensimon Fabrice (dir.), Friedrich Engels. Écrits de jeunesse, trad. David-Guillou Angèle et. al., Paris, GEME-Éditions sociales, 2018.
Engels Friedrich, La Situation de la classe laborieuse en Angleterre [1845], Paris, Éditions sociales, 2021.
Engels Friedrich, “Socialism, Utopian and Scientific” [1880], in The Selected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, trad. Edward Aveling, Moscou, Progress Publishers, 1970.
Hazlitt William, Political Essays with Sketches of Public Characters, Londres, William Hone [1816], 1819.
Holyoake George Jacob, A Visit to Harmony Hall, Londres, Henry Hetherington, 1844
Marx Karl et Engels Friedrich, The Communist Manifesto [1848], ed. McLellan David, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1992.
Morris, William Contributions to the Common Weal, [1885-1890], Londres, Thoemmes Press, 1996.
Owen Robert, A New View of Society, 4 vols., 1813-1817.
Owen Robert, Report to the County of Lanark, 1820.
Owen Robert, “The Social System”, New Harmony Gazette, 1826-1827.
Owen Robert, The Life of Robert Owen, written by Himself, Londres, Effingham Wilson, 1857-58.
Thompson William, An Inquiry into the Principles of the Distribution of Wealth, Londres, Longman, 1824.
Webb Beatrice, The Co-operative Movement in Britain, Londres, Sonnenschein & Co., 1899.
“What to Read”, Fabian Tract n° 29, Londres, The Fabian Society, 1891-1910.
Sources secondaires
Abensour Miguel, L’histoire de l’utopie et le destin de sa critique, Paris, Sens & Tonka, « Utopiques 4 », 2016.
Abensour Miguel, Le Nouvel esprit utopique, Paris, Sens & Tonka, « Utopiques 5 », 2024.
Armytage W.H.G., Heavens Below, Londres, Routledge, 1961.
Berg Maxine, The Machine Question and the Making of Political Economy (1815-1848), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1980.
Burke Stephen, “Letter from a Pioneer Socialist”, Studies in Labour History, n°1, 1976, p. 22-25.
Chase Malcolm, The People’s Farm: English Radical Agrarianism 1775–1840, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1988.
Chase Malcolm, Chartism. A New History, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2007.
Claeys Gregory, “Paternalism and Democracy in the Politics of Robert Owen”, International Review of Social History, n°27/2, 1982, p. 161-207.
Claeys Gregory, “‘Individualism’, ‘Socialism’ and ‘Social Science’: Further Notes on a Process of Conceptual Formation, 1800–1850”, Journal of the History of Ideas, n° 47/1, 1986, p. 81–93.
Claeys Gregory, Machinery, Money and the Millennium: from Moral Economy to Socialism, 1815-1860, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Claeys Gregory, Citizens and Saints: Politics and Anti-Politics in the Early Socialist Movement, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Claeys Gregory, Searching for Utopia. The History of an Idea, Londres, Thames & Hudson, 2011.
Cordillot Michel, Utopistes et exilés du Nouveau Monde. Des Français aux Etats-Unis de 1848 à la Commune, Paris, Vendémiaire, 2013.
Davis Robert A. et O’Hagan Frank, Robert Owen, Londres, Bloomsbury, 2014, p. 194.
Gurney Peter, The Making of Consumer Culture in Modern Britain, Londres, Bloomsbury, 2017.
Harrison J.F.C., Robert Owen and the Owenites in Britain and America. The Quest for a New Moral World, Londres, Routledge, 1969.
Hewins W.A.S, “Pare, William (1805-1873)”, ODNB Online, 2004, consulté le 24 août 2011. URL : http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21262
Lallement Michel, Le travail de l’utopie. Godin et le Familistère de Guise, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2009.
Langdon John C., “Pocket Editions of the New Jerusalem. Owenite Communitarianism in Britain 1825-1855”, thèse d’histoire, Université d’York, 2000.
Levitas Ruth, Utopia as Method, Londres, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Lucas Edward, Early Socialism and the ‘Religion of the New Moral World’, Londres, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Mercklé Pierre, « Utopie ou “science sociale” ». Réceptions de l’œuvre de Charles Fourier au XIXe siècle », European Journal of Sociology , n° 45/1, 2004, p. 45-80.
Navickas Katrina, Protest and the Politics of Space and Place 1789–1848, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2016.
Parssinen Thomas M. et Prothero Iorwerth, “The London Tailors’ Strike and the Collapse of the Grand National Consolidated Trades’ Union: A Police Spy’s Report”, International Review of Social History, n° 22/1, 1977, p. 65-107.
Podmore Frank, Robert Owen. A Biography, Londres, Allen & Unwin, 1906.
Ricœur Paul, L’idéologie et l’utopie, Paris, Seuil, 1997.
Roberts Matthew « Woman and Late Chartism. Women’s Rights in Mid-Victorian England”, English Historical Review, n°51, 2021, p. 918-949.
Royle Edward, Robert Owen and the Commencement of the Millennium. The Harmony Community at Queenwood Farm, 1839-1845, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1998.
Siméon Ophélie, « Robert Owen, père du socialisme britannique ? », La Vie des idées, septembre 2012.
Siméon Ophélie, Robert Owen’s Experiment at New Lanark. From Paternalism to Socialism, Londres, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Siméon Ophélie “‘Revolution in the Mind’. Lecture et bibliothèques chez Robert Owen”, in Brémand Nathalie (dir.), Bibliothèques en utopie. Les Socialistes et la lecture au XIXe siècle, Villeurbanne, Presses de l’ENSSIB, 2020, p. 191-206.
Siméon Ophélie, Contemporary Thought on Nineteenth-Century Socialism, vol. 1, “Owenism”, Londres, Routledge, 2021.
Stedman Jones Gareth, “Utopian Socialism Reconsidered. Science and Religion in the Early Socialist Movement”, in Samuel Raphael (dir.), People’s History and Socialist Theory, Londres, Taylor & Francis, 1981, p. 138-144.
Taylor Barbara, Eve and the New Jerusalem. Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century, Londres, Virago, 1983.
Thompson E.P., The Making of the English Working-Class, Londres, Gollancz, 1963.
Yeo Eileen, “Robert Owen and Radical Culture”, in Pollard Sidney et Salt John (dir.), Robert Owen, Prophet of the Poor: Essays in the Honour of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of His Birth, Londres, Macmillan, 1971, p. 84-114.
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Notes
Morning Star, 22 avril 1834; Times, 22 avril 1834; Home Office Papers, Public Disorder, HO 52, 1834; Home Office Papers, Civil Petitions and Addresses, HO 54, 1834, Kew, The National Archives.
Marx Karl et Engels Friedrich, The Communist Manifesto [1848], ed. McLellan David, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1992, pp. 34-7; Engels Friedrich, “Socialism, Utopian and Scientific” [1880], in The Selected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, trad. Edward Aveling, Moscou, Progress Publishers, 1970, p. 95-151.
“a preposterous thinker”, who “simply had a vacant place in his mind where most men have political responses”, Thompson E.P., The Making of the English Working Class, Londres, Gollancz, 1963, p. 783, 786 (ma traduction).
La section du Manifeste consacrée à Owen, Fourier et Saint-Simon s’intitule en effet « Le socialisme critique-utopique et le communisme »; Mercklé Pierre, « Utopie ou “science sociale” ». Réceptions de l’œuvre de Charles Fourier au XIXe siècle », European Journal of Sociology , n° 45/1, 2004, p. 45-80.
“[…] every social movement, every real advance in England on behalf of the workers links itself to the name of Robert Owen”, Engels Friedrich, “Socialism, Utopian and Scientific”, op.cit., p. 95. Voir aussi Engels Friedrich, La Situation de la classe laborieuse en Angleterre [1845], Paris, Éditions sociales, 2021.
Berg Maxine, The Machine Question and the Making of Political Economy (1815-1848), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1980; Stedman Jones Gareth, “Utopian Socialism Reconsidered. Science and Religion in the Early Socialist Movement”, in Samuel Raphael (dir.), People’s History and Socialist Theory, Londres, Taylor & Francis, 1981, p. 138-144; Claeys Gregory, Machinery, Money and the Millennium: from Moral Economy to Socialism, 1815-1860, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1987; Claeys Gregory, Citizens and Saints: Politics and Anti-Politics in the Early Socialist Movement, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989. En France, les travaux du philosophe Miguel Abensour sur la pensée utopique ont abouti, à partir de sa thèse d’État soutenue en 1973, à une réévaluation similaire du premier socialisme. Voir la récente édition de cette thèse: Abensour Miguel, Le Nouvel esprit utopique, Paris, Sens et Tonka, « Utopiques V », 2024.
Yeo Eileen, “Robert Owen and Radical Culture”, in Pollard Sidney et Salt John (dir.), Robert Owen, Prophet of the Poor: Essays in the Honour of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of His Birth, Londres, Macmillan, 1971, p. 84-114; Taylor Barbara, Eve and the New Jerusalem. Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century, Londres, Virago, 1983; Navickas Katrina, Protest and the Politics of Space and Place 1789–1848, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2016.
Siméon Ophélie, “Robert Owen, père du socialisme britannique ?”, La Vie des idées, septembre 2012; Siméon Ophélie, Robert Owen’s Experiment at New Lanark. From Paternalism to Socialism, Londres, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
William Godwin’s Diary, 1812-1813, Abinger Papers, Bodleian Library, Oxford.
Harrison J.F.C., Robert Owen and the Owenites in Britain and America. The Quest for a New Moral World, Londres, Routledge, 1969, p. 84-85.
Owen Robert, Report to the County of Lanark, 1820.
Cobbett William, “Mr. Owen”, Black Dwarf, 20 août 1817.
Hazlitt William, Political Essays with Sketches of Public Characters, Londres, William Hone [1816], 1819, p. 97-98.
Owen Robert, Report to the County of Lanark, op.cit., p. 15; Harrison J.F.C., Robert Owen and the Owenites, op.cit., p. 79.
Claeys Gregory, “‘Individualism’, ‘Socialism’ and ‘Social Science’: Further Notes on a Process of Conceptual Formation, 1800–1850”, Journal of the History of Ideas, n° 47/1, 1986, p. 81–93.
Siméon Ophélie, Contemporary Thought on Nineteenth-Century Socialism, vol. 1, “Owenism”, Londres, Routledge, 2021, p. 8
Claeys Gregory, “Paternalism and Democracy in the Politics of Robert Owen”, International Review of Social History, n°27/2, 1982, p. 161-207.
Mudie George, The Economist, 1821-1824; Thompson William, An Inquiry into the Principles of the Distribution of Wealth, Londres, Longman, 1824.
Taylor Barbara, Eve and the New Jerusalem, op.cit. p. 53.
Harrison J.F.C.,, Robert Owen and the Owenites, op.cit., p. 50.
“ […] the complete emancipation of the labouring class from the tyranny of capital and monopoly”, Anon., To Unionists, 1834, p. 13.
Gurney Peter, The Making of Consumer Culture in Modern Britain, Londres, Bloomsbury, 2017, p. 50.
Co-operative News, 24 octobre 1872, p. 72; Siméon, Ophélie “‘Revolution in the Mind’. Lecture et bibliothèques chez Robert Owen”, in Brémand Nathalie (dir.), Bibliothèques en utopie. Les Socialistes et la lecture au XIXe siècle, Villeurbanne, Presses de l’ENSSIB, 2020, p. 191-206.
Carpenter’s Political Letters and Pamphlets, 30 avril 1831, cité in. Langdon John C., Pocket Editions of the New Jerusalem. Owenite Communitarianism in Britain 1825-1855, thèse d’histoire, Université d’York, 2000, p. 3.
Weekly Free Press, 20 mars et 7 août 1830; Lancashire and Yorkshire Co-operator, 8 mars 1832.
Siméon Ophélie, “The Grand National Consolidated Trades’ Union, 1833–1834: Class and Conflict in the Early British Labour Movement”, in Avril Emmanuelle et Béliard Yann (dir.), Labour United and Divided from the 1830s to the Present, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2018, p. 21–32.
Birmingham Labour Exchange Gazette, 16 janvier 1833; The Crisis, 3 août 1833 et 4 janvier 1834.
Home Office Papers, Criminal (Rewards and Pardons) Correspondence and Secret Service Reports, 1834-1837, HO 64/15, Kew, National Archives; Parssinen Thomas M. et Prothero Iorwerth, “The London Tailors’ Strike and the Collapse of the Grand National Consolidated Trades’ Union: A Police Spy’s Report”, International Review of Social History, n°22/1, 1977, p. 65-107; Siméon Ophélie, “The Grand National Consolidated Trades’ Union”, op.cit., p. 26.
Owen Robert, “The Social System”, New Harmony Gazette, 1826-1827.
Voir la rubrique « A Page for the Ladies », The Pioneer, 1833-1834.
Representation of the People Act 1832, 2&3 Wm. IV, c. 45.
“Before a woman inclined to do good in any way, is permitted to do so in her country, there must be a reform indeed which our Radicals do not contemplate”, lettre d’Anna Doyle Wheeler à Marc-Antoine Jullien, 15 novembre 1832, cité dans Burke Stephen, “Letter from a Pioneer Socialist”, Studies in Labour History, n°1, 1976, p. 22-25.
Lucas Edward, Early Socialism and the ‘Religion of the New Moral World’, Londres, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Chase Malcolm, Chartism. A New History, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2007, p. 250.
Avant la parution du Manifeste du parti communiste en 1848, les termes « communiste », « owéniste » et « socialiste » sont souvent employés de manière interchangeable au Royaume-Uni.
Engels Friedrich, « Lettres de Londres », Schweizerischer Republikaner, n° 46, 9 juin 1843, in Bensimon Fabrice (dir.), Friedrich Engels. Écrits de jeunesse, trad. David-Guillou Angèle et.al., Paris, GEME-Éditions sociales, 2018, p. 73-74,
Royle Edward, Robert Owen and the Commencement of the Millennium. The Harmony Community at Queenwood Farm, 1839-1845, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1998, p. 65.
Harrison J.F.C., Owen and the Owenites, op.cit., p. 268.
New Moral World, 6 juin 1840; Armytage W.H.G., Heavens Below, Londres, Routledge, 1961, p. 145.
Cordillot Michel, Utopistes et exilés du Nouveau Monde. Des Français aux Etats-Unis de 1848 à la Commune, Paris, Vendémiaire, 2013.
Royle Edward, Robert Owen and the Commencement of the Millennium, op.cit., p. 191.
Holyoake George Jacob, A Visit to Harmony Hall, Londres, Henry Hetherington, 1844, p. 10.
Roberts Matthew « Woman and Late Chartism. Women’s Rights in Mid-Victorian England”, English Historical Review, n°51, 2021, p. 918-949.
Claeys Gregory, Citizens and Saints, op. cit., ch. 6, “Owenism and Chartism”.
Royle Edward, Robert Owen and the Commencement of the Millennium, op. cit., p. 191.
Cette dernière partie s’appuie sur mon introduction à Contemporary Thought on Nineteenth-Century Socialism, op. cit., 13-26.
Owen Robert, The Life of Robert Owen, written by Himself, Londres, Effingham Wilson, 1857-58.
Ibid., p. 7.
“A good part of the English socialist tradition is in fact a series of reinterpretations of enigmatic figures from the past. For each age there is a new view of Mr. Owen”, Harrison J.F.C., “A New View of Mr. Owen”, in Pollard Sidney et Salt John (dir..), op.cit., p. 1-13.
Hewins W.A.S, “Pare, William (1805-1873)”, ODNB Online, 2004, consulté le 24 août 2011. URL : http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21262
Morris, William, Contributions to the Common Weal [1885-1890], Londres, Thoemmes Press, 1996.
“What to Read”, Fabian Tract n° 29, Londres, The Fabian Society, 1891-1910; Podmore Frank, Robert Owen. A Biography, Londres, Allen & Unwin, 1906. Il s’agit de la première véritable biographie d’Owen, Podmore ayant eu accès, grâce à George Jacob Holyoake, à la correspondance du mouvement owéniste, aujourd’hui conservée au siège du mouvement coopératif britannique à Manchester.
“[…] the father of English Socialism — not the Socialism of foreign manufacture which cries for a Utopia of anarchy to be brought about by murderous revolution, but the distinctively English Socialism, the Socialism which discovers itself in works and not in words […]”, Webb Beatrice, The Co-operative Movement in Britain, Londres, Sonnenschein & Co., 1899, p. 15-16.
Chase Malcolm, The People’s Farm: English Radical Agrarianism 1775–1840, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1988, p. 250.
Davis Robert A. et O’Hagan Frank, Robert Owen, Londres, Bloomsbury, 2014, p. 194.
Ibid., p. 181; Siméon Ophélie, Robert Owen’s Experiment at New Lanark, op.cit., p. 156.
Thompson William, Inquiry, op.cit., p. 427; Claeys Gregory, Citizens and Saints, op.cit., p. 197.
Siméon Ophélie, Robert Owen’s Experiment at New Lanark, op.cit., p. 159.
Lallement Michel, Le travail de l’utopie. Godin et le Familistère de Guise, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2009, p. 12. Voir également Ricœur Paul, L’idéologie et l’utopie, Paris, Seuil, 1997; Claeys Gregory, Searching for Utopia. The History of an Idea, Londres, Thames & Hudson, 2011; Levitas Ruth, Utopia as Method, Londres, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013; Abensour Miguel, L’histoire de l’utopie et le destin de sa critique, Paris, Sens & Tonka, « Utopiques 4 », 2016.
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