penny politics of Victorian popular fiction
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Chartist fiction
cultural and political confrontation
early Victorian popular literature
early Victorian radicalism
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G. W. M. Reynolds
hegemony and counter-hegemony
Jack Sheppard and Newgate fiction
mass culture
Sweeney Todd and Edward Lloyd
Victorian periodicals
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- ISBN 9781526174536
- Weight: 288g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 31 Oct 2023
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Penny politics offers a new way to read early Victorian popular fiction such as Jack Sheppard, Sweeney Todd, and The Mysteries of London. It locates forms of radical discourse in the popular literature that emerged simultaneously with Brittan’s longest and most significant people’s movement. It listens for echoes of Chartist fiction in popular fiction. The book rethinks the relationship between the popular and political, understanding that radical politics had popular appeal and that the lines separating a genuine radicalism from commercial success are complicated and never absolute. With archival work into Newgate calendars and Chartist periodicals, as well as media history and culture, it brings together histories of the popular and political so as to rewrite the radical canon.
Rob Breton is Professor of English literature at Nipissing University
