James Malcolm Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family

Author:   Rebecca Nesvet
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781032431604


Pages:   174
Publication Date:   26 December 2025
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James Malcolm Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family


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Author:   Rebecca Nesvet
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
ISBN:  

9781032431604


ISBN 10:   1032431601
Pages:   174
Publication Date:   26 December 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Not yet available   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter 1: The Rymers: A Cockney Artistic-Literary Family, 1806-1842 Chapter 2: The Queen’s Magazine: A Spirit of the Age, 1842 Chapter 3: Ada the Betrayed: Chartist Domesticity, 1842-1843 Chapter 4: Rymer’s Domestic Romance: Varney and The String of Pearls, 1845-1850 Chapter 5: The Sepoys: Family Imperialism in India, 1858 Chapter 6: Rymer’s Highwaymen: Outlaws and Paterfamiliae, 1859-1866 Coda: Rymer the Betrayed: Penny Dreadfuls’, Panic, and “Boys’ Books, 1870-1960

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""Rebecca Nesvet has played a critical role in the 21st century rediscovery and reinterpretation of a body of nineteenth-century fiction that has been suppressed, demonized, marginalized, and condescended to for over a century and a half, and is still known primarily from the dismissive labels of its critics: “penny bloods” and “penny dreadfuls.” The extraordinary range and depth of her research enables her to take us inside these forgotten works and the periodicals that published them, from Edward Lloyd’s wildly successful weeklies to the redoubtable G.W.M. Reynold’s Miscellany, to trace the arc of Rymer’s remarkable career and its roots in his own family connections. This insightful book will be a touchstone in scholars’ efforts to make sense of the enormous body of “cheap literature” that made up so much of the Victorian reading public’s engagement with print culture."" --Patrick Leary, author of The Punch Brotherhood


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Rebecca Nesvet, Professor of English, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, earned her PhD in Nineteenth Century British Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill in 2014.

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