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Author:   Joseph Bristow ,  Josephine McDonagh
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   4.401kg
ISBN:  

9781137597052

ISBN 10:   1137597054
Pages:   243
Publication Date:   21 September 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures.- Preface and Acknowledgements.- Contributors.- Introduction; Joseph Bristow and Josephine McDonagh.- 1.No Laughing Matter: Chartism and the Limits of Satire; Mike Sanders.- 2. ‘Their Deadly Longing’: Paternalism, the Past, and Perversion in Barnaby Rudge; Ben Winyard.- 3. Frederick William Robinson, Charles Dickens, and the Literary Tradition of ‘Low Life’; Anne Schwan.- 4. Remembering Radicalism on the Midlands Turnpike: George Eliot, Felix Holt, and William Cobbett; Ruth Livesey.- 5. The Commune in Exile: Urban Insurrection and the Production of International Space; Scott McCracken.- 6. Divorce and the New Woman; Anne Humphreys.- 7. Revolutions in Journalism: W. T. Stead, Indexing, and ‘Searching’; Laurel Brake.- 8. Towards a Perlocutionary Poetics?; Isobel Armstrong.- Sally Ledger: A Chronological Bibliography.- Bibliography.- Index.-

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Joseph Bristow is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. His most recent book (coauthored with Rebecca N. Mitchell) is Oscar Wilde’s Chatterton: Literary History, Romanticism, and the Art of Forgery (2015). He is completing a study of Oscar Wilde’s criminal trials. Josephine McDonagh is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at King’s College London, UK. She is the author of monographs on the works of Thomas De Quincey and George Eliot, and a wide-ranging study entitled Child Murder in British Culture 1720-1900 (2003). She is currently completing a study of migration and nineteenth-century British literature.  

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