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Dickens and democracy in the age of paper : representing the people / Carolyn Vellenga Berman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berman, Carolyn Vellenga, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Politics and literature.
- Government publications--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Government publications.
- Great Britain--Social conditions--19th century.
- Great Britain.
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Criticism and interpretation.
- Dickens, Charles.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (368 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- This work examines Charles Dickens's fiction alongside publications emanating from Parliament. It argues that Dickens and Parliament were engaged in competitive efforts to represent the People at a crucial moment in the history of representative democracy - when the British government was under enormous political pressure to expand the franchise beyond a narrow band of male landowners. Contending that fiction and the literature of Parliament interacted at a host of levels - jostling one another in the same bookshops - it reads Dickens's novels in tandem with blue books, the practice texts of shorthand manuals, and Dickens's journalism.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The Popular Press
- Tracing Characters: Political Shorthand and the History of Writing
- Breach of Privilege: Reporting, Satire, and Reform
- Snoring for the Million: Pickwick and Parliamentary Publication
- Vagabonds: Suspicious Company in Oliver Twist
- Mirror of Bleak House: Haunting Parliament
- Blue Books in Hard Times
- Circumlocution: The Blood of the Book
- National Dustmen: Coal and Paper
- Coda: Victorian Twitter.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 18, 2022).
- This edition also issued in print: 2022.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Berman, Carolyn Vellenga Dickens and Democracy in the Age of Paper
- ISBN:
- 0-19-265993-6
- 0-19-193754-1
- 0-19-265992-8
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