Anne Humpherys

G.W.M. Reynolds (eBook, ePUB)

Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Politics, and the Press
Redaktion: James, Louis

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The influential journalist, editor, and prolific fiction writer G. W. M. Reynolds (1814-1879) finally receives the attention he is due in this collaborative volume. Essays address Reynolds's involvement with Chartism, serial publication, the mass market periodical, commodity culture, and Reynolds's long-running urban gothic work, The Mysteries of London. Comprehensive bibliographies of Reynolds's own writings and relevant secondary works make this volume an essential resource for scholars.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351935081
• Artikelnr.: 47955983

Autorenporträt

Anne Humpherys is Professor of English at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA, and Professor Louis James is Emeritus Professor in Victorian and Modern Literature at the University of Kent, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction, Anne Humpherys and Louis James; Part I Beginnings:
France: G.W.M. Reynolds and the modern literature of France, Sara James;
The French connection: G.W.M. Reynolds and the outlaw Robert Macaire, Rohan
McWilliam. Part II Politics and the Periodical Press: Reynolds's
Miscellany, 1846-1849: advertising networks and politics, Andrew King;
G.W.M. Reynolds, Reynolds's Newspaper and popular politics, Michael H.
Shirley; From journalism and fiction into politics, Michael Diamond; 'Some
little or contemptible war upon her hands': Reynolds's Newspaper and
empire, Anthony Taylor. Part III The Urban Mysteries: An introduction to
G.W.M. Reynolds's 'encyclopedia of tales', Anne Humpherys; Lost in
translation: the relationship between Eugène Sue's Les Mystères de Paris
and G.W.M.Reynolds's The Mysteries of London, Berry Chevasco; The wrongs
and crimes of the poor: the urban underworld of The Mysteries of London in
context, Stephen James Carver; Reynolds's Mysteries and popular culture,
Juliet John. Part IV Popular Culture: Time, politics and the symbolic
imagination in Reynolds's social melodrama, Louis James; Reynolds's
'memoirs' series and 'the literature of the kitchen', Graham Law; The
virtue of illegitimacy: inheritance and belonging in The Dark Woman and
Mary Price, Ellen Bayuk Rosenman; The mysteries of reading: text and
illustration in the fiction of G.W.M. Reynolds, Brian Maidment. Part V
Afterlife: G.W.M. Reynolds: rewritten in 19th-century Bengal, Sucheta
Bhattacharya; Modernity, memory and myth: Reynolds's News and the
cooperative movement, Ian Haywood; A bibliography of works by G.W.M.
Reynolds, Louis James; Bibliography of selected secondary materials on
G.W.M Reynolds and his works, Helen Hauser; Index.