Reform acts :
Vanden Bossche, Chris.
Reform acts : chartism, social agency, and the Victorian novel, 1832-1867 / Chris R. Vanden Bossche. - 1 online resource (265 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9781421412092 (e-book)
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Social classes in literature.
Chartism in literature.
Literature and society--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Electronic books.
PR830.S6 / V36 2014eb
823.009/355
Reform acts : chartism, social agency, and the Victorian novel, 1832-1867 / Chris R. Vanden Bossche. - 1 online resource (265 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9781421412092 (e-book)
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Social classes in literature.
Chartism in literature.
Literature and society--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Electronic books.
PR830.S6 / V36 2014eb
823.009/355