Sally Ledger, Ledger Sally

Dickens and the Popular Radical Imagination

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Produktbeschreibung

Sally Ledger offers substantial readings of the influences of radical writers on works from Pickwick to Little Dorrit.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 515g
• ISBN-13: 9780521141833
• ISBN-10: 0521141834
• Artikelnr.: 29608658

Autorenporträt

Sally Ledger is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at Birkbeck, University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on editions and abbreviations used
Introduction: Dickens and the popular radical imagination
1. Popular radical culture in Regency England: Peterloo and The Queen Caroline Affair
2. Dickens and nineteenth-century show trials
3. Dickens, popular culture and popular politics in the 1830s: Oliver Twist
4. Christmas is cancelled: Dickens and Douglas Jerrold writing the 1840s
5. Popular and political writing in the radical press: from Douglas Jerrold to Ernest Jones, Chartist
6. Household Words, politics and the mass market in the 1850s
7. Flunkeyism and toadyism in the age of machinery: from Bleak House to Little Dorrit
Notes
Bibliography
Index.