Gregory Vargo

An Underground History of Early Victorian Fiction

• Broschiertes 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: 31. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9781316647912
• ISBN-10: 1316647919
• Artikelnr.: 55716454

Autorenporträt

Gregory Vargo is Assistant Professor at New York University. His published essays have appeared in Victorian Studies and Victorian Literature and Culture. He has held fellowships from the Fulbright program, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Mrs Giles Whiting Foundation. With Rob Breton, he is the creator of Chartist Fiction, a bibliographic database of over 1000 reviews and stories that appeared in over twenty-five Chartist periodicals.

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.