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Author Vanden Bossche, Chris.

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

Publication Info. Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, [2014]
2014

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Description 1 online resource (265 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Social classes in literature.
Chartism in literature.
Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Vanden Bossche, Chris. Reform acts : chartism, social agency, and the Victorian novel, 1832-1867. Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, [2014] viii, 254 pages 9781421412085 (DLC) 2013016722
ISBN 9781421412085 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
142141208X (hardcover : acid-free paper)
9781421412092 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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