Reform acts : Chartism, social agency, and the Victorian novel, 1832-1867

Reform acts : Chartism, social agency, and the Victorian novel, 1832-1867 / Chris R. Vanden Bossche.

Reform Acts offers a new approach to prominent questions raised in recent studies of the novel. By examining social agency from a historical rather than theoretical perspective, Chris R. Vanden Bossche investigates how particular assumptions involving agency came into being. Through readings of both...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vanden Bossche, Chris
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Andrae, A.
1800-1899
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Social classes in literature.
Chartism in literature.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Social classes in literature
Chartism in literature
Chartism
English fiction
Literature
Literature and society
Social classes
Chartismus
Englisch
Soziales Handeln
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Social agency: the franchise, class discourse and national narratives
  • Social agency in the chartist and parliamentary press
  • Egalitarian chivalry and popular agency in Wat Tyler
  • Unconsummated marriage and the "uncommitted" gunpowder plot in Guy Fawkes
  • Class alliance and self-culture in Barnaby Rudge
  • Agricultural reform, young England's allotments, and the chartist land plan
  • The landed estate, finely graded hierarchy and the member of parliament in Coningsby and Sybil
  • Agricultural improvement and the squirearchy in Hillingdon Hall
  • The land plan, class dichotomy, and working-class agency in sunshine and shadow
  • Christian socialism and cooperative association
  • Clergy and working-class cooperation in Yeast and Alton Locke
  • Reforming trades unionism in Mary Barton and North and South
  • Coda: Rethinking reform in the era of the Second Reform Act, 1860-1867.

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