Chartist Fiction : Volume Two PDF
Edited by Ian Haywood
Part of the Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World series
Description
First published in 2001. When the Chartist leader Ernest Jones emerged from prison in 1850, he was determined to capture the public's attention with a controversial and topical novel. The result of his endeavours was the remarkable Woman's Wrongs, a series of five tales exploring women's oppression at every level of society from the working class to the aristocracy. Each story presents a graphic, often harrowing account of the social, economic and emotional victimization of women, and taken together the tales comprise a devastating indictment of Victorian patriarchal attitudes and sexual inequalities.
In his substantial Introduction, Ian Haywood places the novel in the context of Jones's career as a Chartist author and editor, and in the wider context of the 'woman question'. Some of the topics covered by the Introduction include: the radical press and popular enlightenment, Jones's rivalry with George W. M. Reynolds, and the needlewoman as radical icon. This title will be of interest to students of history.
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:234 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis
- Publication Date:29/01/2018
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- ISBN:9781317241775
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:234 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis
- Publication Date:29/01/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781317241775
