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1 online resource (265 pages) |
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online resource rdacarrier |
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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.
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Social classes in literature.
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Chartism in literature.
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Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Electronic books.
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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) |
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142141208X (hardcover : acid-free paper) |
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9781421412092 (electronic bk.) |
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