Underground History of Early Victorian Fiction
«'Vargo's book enlarges our understanding of the topics addressed in Chartist discourse while also describing the self-consciousness and self-presentation of Chartist print culture, its ways of designating itself within the public sphere. In this regard, it does for the Victorian radical press specifically what Kevin Gilmartin did for the radical press of the early nineteenth century in his Print Politics (1986).' Catherine Gallagher, Modern Philology»
How does the literature and culture of early Victorian Britain look different if viewed from below? Exploring the interplay between canonical social problem novels and the journalism and fiction appearing in the periodical press associated with working-class protest movements, Gregory Vargo challenges long-held assumptions about the cultural separation between the 'two nations' of rich and poor in the Victorian era. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Cambridge University Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781316647912
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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«'Vargo's book enlarges our understanding of the topics addressed in Chartist discourse while also describing the self-consciousness and self-presentation of Chartist print culture, its ways of designating itself within the public sphere. In this regard, it does for the Victorian radical press specifically what Kevin Gilmartin did for the radical press of the early nineteenth century in his Print Politics (1986).' Catherine Gallagher, Modern Philology»
«'[An Underground History of Early Victorian Fiction] successfully demonstrates the utility of the notion of 'generative exchange' as a way of thinking about cross-class cultural relations.' Mike Sanders, Labour History Review»
«'Comparing revolutionary bloodshed with the gradual violence of famine in Ireland, Vargo notes, '[the Star] asks why one merits sensational prose little notice' … In thus stressing the Chartists' desire to make melodramatic language applicable to daily oppression as well as to outbursts of violence, Vargo instantly reminded me of Zola and other natural polemicists. Altogether, he sheds important light on the almost subvocalized conversations that precede those very public debates of the fin de siècle.' John Plotz, Review 19 (www.nbol-19.org)»
«'… a gentle but persuasive challenge to some of the critical commonplaces surrounding Victorian social problem writing.' Juliette Atkinson, The Times Literary Supplement»