An underground history of early Victorian fiction : Chartism, radical print culture and the social problem novel / Greg Vargo, New York University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vargo, Gregory, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; v. 110.

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; v. 110

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Social problems in literature.

Working class in literature.

Chartism in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiv, 278 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Contents:

Introduction: can a social problem speak?

Social inheritance in the new poor law debate: William Cobbett, Harriet Martineau, and the Royal Commission of Inquiry

Books of (social) murder: melodrama and the slow violence of the market in anti-new poor law satire, fiction, and journalism

A life in fragments: Thomas Cooper's Chartist Bildungsroman

Questions from workers who read: education and self-formation in Chartist print culture and Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton

Revenge in the age of insurance: villainy in theatrical melodrama and Ernest Jones's fiction

"Outworks of the citadel of corruption": the Chartist press reports the empire

Two nations revisited: the refugee question in the people's paper, household words and Charles Dickens's A tale of two cities.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107197855

1107197856

OCLC:

992784813