Reform acts : chartism, social agency, and the Victorian novel, 1832-1867 - Vanden Bossche, Chris (Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Keywords: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Social classes in literature; Chartism in literature; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Electronic books