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Reform acts : Chartism, social agency, and the Victorian novel, 1832-1867 /
Reform Acts offers a new approach to prominent questions raised in recent studies of the novel. By examining social agency from a historical rather than theoretical perspective, Chris R. Vanden Bossche investigates how particular assumptions involving agency came into being. Through readings of both...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
The Johns Hopkins University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.