Dickens and Democracy in the Age of Paper - Representing the People

Studies Victorian parliamentiary literature in tandem with the novels of Charles Dickens as a means to explore the complex interaction of commercial literature with state experiments in publication.

Sommario

• Introduction: The Popular Press


• Part One: The Art of Representation


• 1: Tracing Characters: Political Shorthand and the History of Writing


• 2: Breach of Privilege: Reporting, Satire, and Reform


• 3: Snoring for the Million: Pickwick and Parliamentary Publication


• Part Two: A Parliamentary People


• 4: Vagabonds: Suspicious Company in Oliver Twist


• 5: Mirror of Bleak House: Haunting Parliament


• Part Three: Decomposing Forms


• 6: Blue Books in Hard Times


• 7: Circumlocution: The Blood of the Book


• 8: National Dustmen: Coal and Paper


• Coda: Victorian Twitter


• Works Cited

Info autore

Carolyn Vellenga Berman (Ph.D., Brown University) is an Associate Professor of literature and Co-Chair of Literary Studies at Eugene Lang College, The New School, in New York City. She is the author of Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery (Cornell University Press). Her articles have appeared in Victorian Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture, Novel, Genre, and Nineteenth-Century Contexts and collections ranging from Just Below South (University of Virginia) to The Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature (Blackwell). She serves on the advisory board of the North American Victorian Studies Association and the editorial board of Dickens Studies Annual.

Riassunto

Studies Victorian parliamentiary literature in tandem with the novels of Charles Dickens as a means to explore the complex interaction of commercial literature with state experiments in publication.

Testo aggiuntivo

Underlines just how much we can still learn today from Dickens and Parliament in the nineteenth century.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Carolyn Vellenga Berman, Carolyn Vellenga (Associate Professor of L Berman, Berman Carolyn Vellenga
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9780192845405
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284540-5
• Pagine: 368
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; English, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies