Reform acts : chartism, social agency, and the Victorian novel, 1832-1867 / / Chris R. Vanden Bossche

• Autore: Vanden Bossche Chris
• Pubblicazione: Baltimore : , : The Johns Hopkins University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 p.)
• Disciplina: 823.009/355
• Soggetto topico: English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism; Social classes in literature; Chartism in literature; Literature and society - Great Britain - History - 19th century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Reform acts
• ISBN: 1-4214-1209-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813408003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II