A01=Anne Humpherys
Author_Anne Humpherys
Capital Punishment
Category=DS
Category=DSBF
Centenary Souvenir
century
Chartism history
commodity culture research
Des Adrets
Encyclopedic Narrative
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
fiction
George III
Herne Bay
Le Dernier Jour
london
London Journal
mary
Mary Price
mass market periodicals
miscellany
mysteries
Napoleon III
newspaper
nineteenth
nineteenth-century British popular press influence
Pickwick Abroad
price
Resurrection Man
Reynolds's Fiction
Reynolds's Miscellany
Reynolds's Mysteries
Reynolds's News
Reynolds's Newspaper
Reynolds's Novels
Reynolds's Political Instructor
Reynolds's Works
reynoldss
Reynolds’s Fiction
Reynolds’s Miscellany
Reynolds’s Mysteries
Reynolds’s News
Reynolds’s Newspaper
Reynolds’s Novels
Reynolds’s Political Instructor
Reynolds’s Works
Robert Macaire
serial fiction analysis
Silver Fork Novels
Superb
Thomas Tegg
urban gothic narratives
Victorian literature studies
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780367887964
- Weight: 580g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 13 Dec 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
G.W.M. Reynolds (1814-1879) had a major impact on the mid-Victorian era that until now has been largely unacknowledged. A prolific novelist whose work had a massive circulation, and an influential journalist and editor, he was a man of contradictions in both his life and writing: a middle-class figure who devoted his life to working class issues but seldom missed a chance to profit from the exploitation of current issues; the founder of the radical newspaper Reynolds Weekly, as well as a bestselling author of historical romances, gothic and sensation novels, oriental tales, and domestic fiction; a perennial bankrupt who nevertheless ended his life prosperously. A figure of such diversity requires a collaborative study. Bringing together a distinguished group of scholars, this volume does justice to the full range of Reynolds's achievement and influence. With proper emphasis on new work in the field, the contributors take on Reynolds's involvement with Chartism, serial publication, the mass market periodical, commodity culture, and the introduction of French literature into British consciousness, to name just a few of the topics covered. The Mysteries of London, the century's most widely read serial, receives the extensive treatment this long-running urban gothic work deserves. Adding to the volume's usefulness are comprehensive bibliographies of Reynolds's own writings and secondary criticism relevant to the study of this central figure in mid-nineteenth-century Britain.
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.
