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Reform acts : chartism, social agency, and the Victorian novel, 1832-1867 / Chris R. Vanden Bossche.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vanden Bossche, Chris.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Social classes in literature.
- Chartism in literature.
- Literature and society--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Literature and society.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Social agency: the franchise, class discourse and national narratives
- Social agency in the chartist and parliamentary press
- Egalitarian chivalry and popular agency in Wat Tyler
- Unconsummated marriage and the "uncommitted" gunpowder plot in Guy Fawkes
- Class alliance and self-culture in Barnaby Rudge
- Agricultural reform, young England's allotments, and the chartist land plan
- The landed estate, finely graded hierarchy and the member of parliament in Coningsby and Sybil
- Agricultural improvement and the squirearchy in Hillingdon Hall
- The land plan, class dichotomy, and working-class agency in sunshine and shadow
- Christian socialism and cooperative association
- Clergy and working-class cooperation in Yeast and Alton Locke
- Reforming trades unionism in Mary Barton and North and South
- Coda: Rethinking reform in the era of the Second Reform Act, 1860-1867.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-1209-8
- OCLC:
- 867050216
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