Oppositional Aesthetics of Chartist Fiction
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Chartist Circular
Chartist Fiction
Chartist Leaders
Chartist Literature
Chartist Narrative
Chartist Periodicals
Chartist Poetry
Chartist Stories
Chartist Version
Chartist Writing
Cooper's Journal
Cooper’s Journal
De Brassier
Drunkard's Path
Drunkard's Progress
Drunkard’s Path
Drunkard’s Progress
English Chartist Circular
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Field Lane
historical romance genre
Industrial Muse
London Door Step
Marxist literary theory
Middle Class Fiction
Middle Class Story
National Land Company
periodical culture
proletarian fiction analysis
Social Problem Fiction
social problem novels
Victorian literature
Working Man's Wife
Working Man’s Wife
working-class narratives
Younger Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781472471239
- Weight: 470g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 06 Apr 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Redressing a gap in Chartism studies, Rob Breton focuses on the fiction that emerged from the movement, placing it in the context of the Victorian novel and reading it against the works aimed at the middle-class. Breton examines works by well-known writers such as Ernest Jones and Thomas Cooper alongside those of obscure or anonymous writers, rejecting the charge that Chartist fiction fails aesthetically, politically, and culturally. Rather, Breton suggests, it constitutes a type of anti-fiction in which the expectations of narrative are revealed as irreconcilable to the real world. Taking up a range of genres, including the historical romance and social-problem story, Breton theorizes the emergence of the fiction against Marxist conceptualizations of cultural hegemony. In situating Chartist fiction in periodical print culture and specific historical moments, this book shows the ways in which it serves as a critique of mainstream Victorian fiction.
Rob Breton is Associate Professor of English at Nipissing University, Canada.
