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An underground history of early Victorian fiction : Chartism, radical print culture and the social problem novel
- Title
- An underground history of early Victorian fiction : Chartism, radical print culture and the social problem novel / Greg Vargo, New York University.
- Author
- Vargo, Gregory
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 278 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Series Statement
- Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; v. 110
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; v. 110.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-270) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-1467
- ISBN
- 9781107197855
- 1107197856
- LCCN
- 2017030747
- OCLC
- 992784813
- Author
- Vargo, Gregory, author.
- Title
- An underground history of early Victorian fiction : Chartism, radical print culture and the social problem novel / Greg Vargo, New York University.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; v. 110Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; v. 110.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-270) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-1467