Fiction for the Working Man 1830-50

Literature for the masses appeared on an unprecedented scale in the first half of the 19th-century. This was the earliest response to new and voracious demands for cheap books of all kinds. This famous and innovative book enquires as to the nature of this new material.

About the author

Louis James is Emeritus Professor of Victorian and Modern Literature at the University of Kent, Canterbury. He began his academic career in the University of Hull adult education Department, followed by a lectureship at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. In 1966 he left to join the newly established University of Kent at Canterbury, from where he took years out to teach at Universities in the United States, Africa and the Far East. His publications on Victorian and postcolonial literatures include Fiction for the Working Man (1963); The Islands in Between (1968); Print and the People (1976); Jean Rhys (1978); Caribbean Writing in English (1999), and The Victorian Novel (2006). More recently he edited, with Anne Humphreys, G.W.M. Reynolds. Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Politics and the Press (2008).

Product details

• Authors: Louis James
• Publisher: Edward Everett Root
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781911454267
• ISBN: 978-1-911454-26-7
• No. of pages: 298
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 222 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 509 g
• Series: Classics in Social and Economic History; Classics in Social and Economic History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous