Reform Acts - Chartism, Social Agency, and the Victorian Novel, 18321867

By including novels written from a range of political perspectives, Vanden Bossche discovers patterns in Victorian thinking that are easily recognized in today's assumptions about social hierarchy.

About the author

Chris R. Vanden Bossche is a professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, author of Carlyle and the Search for Authority, editor of Thomas Carlyle: Historical Essays, and coeditor of Thomas Carlyle: Past and Present.

Summary

By including novels written from a range of political perspectives, Vanden Bossche discovers patterns in Victorian thinking that are easily recognized in today's assumptions about social hierarchy.

Product details

• Authors: Chris R. Vanden Bossche, Chris Vanden Bossche, Chris R. Vanden Bossche, Chris R. (Professor of English Vanden Bossche
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.03.2014
• EAN: 9781421412085
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-1208-5
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous