An Underground History of Early Victorian Fiction : Chartism, Radical Print Culture, and the Social Problem Novel Paperback / softback
by Gregory (New York University) Vargo
Part of the Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture series
Paperback / softback
Description
How does the literature and culture of early Victorian Britain look different if viewed from below?
Exploring the interplay between canonical social problem novels and the journalism and fiction appearing in the periodical press associated with working-class protest movements, Gregory Vargo challenges long-held assumptions about the cultural separation between the 'two nations' of rich and poor in the Victorian era.
The flourishing radical press was home to daring literary experiments that embraced themes including empire and economic inequality, helping to shape mainstream literature.
Reconstructing social and institutional networks that connected middle-class writers to the world of working-class politics, this book reveals for the first time acknowledged and unacknowledged debts to the radical canon in the work of such authors as Charles Dickens, Thomas Carlyle, Harriet Martineau and Elizabeth Gaskell.
What emerges is a new vision of Victorian social life, in which fierce debates and surprising exchanges spanned the class divide.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:298 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:28/02/2019
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- ISBN:9781316647912
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:298 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:28/02/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9781316647912
