Title An underground history of early Victorian fiction : Chartism, radical print culture and the social problem novel / greg vargo, new york university

Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) Series Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture ; 110 Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 110. 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 Summary Explores the journalism and fiction appearing in the early Victorian working-class periodical press and its influence on mainstream literature Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism Social problems in literature. Working class in literature. Chartism in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Chartism in literature English fiction Social problems in literature Working class in literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781108195690 1108195695 9781108181891 1108181899 9781108181891

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