Gregory Vargo

An Underground History of Early Victorian Fiction

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the journalism and fiction appearing in the early Victorian working-class periodical press and its influence on mainstream literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781107197855
• ISBN-10: 1107197856
• Artikelnr.: 48684623

Autorenporträt

Gregory Vargo is Associate Professor of English at New York University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: can a social problem speak?; 1. Social inheritance in the New
Poor Law debate: William Cobbett, Harriet Martineau, and the Royal
Commission of Inquiry; 2. Books of (social) murder: melodrama and the slow
violence of the market in anti-New Poor Law satire, fiction, and
journalism; 3. A life in fragments: Thomas Cooper's Chartist Bildungsroman;
4. Questions from workers who read: education and self-formation in
Chartist print culture and Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton; 5. Revenge in
the age of insurance: villainy in theatrical melodrama and Ernest Jones's
fiction; 6. 'Outworks of the citadel of corruption': the Chartist Press
reports the empire; 7. Two nations revisited: the refugee question in the
People's Paper, Household Words and Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities.