Nineteenth-Century Radical Traditions (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)
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Hardcover. Editor(s): Bristow, Joseph; McDonagh, Josephine. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 258 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 472.
This book takes a fresh look at the progressive interventions of writers in the nineteenth century. From Cobbett to Dickens and George Eliot, and including a host of lesser known figures – popular novelists, poets, journalists, political activists – writers shared a commitment to exploring the potential of literature as a medium in which to imagine new and better worlds. The essays in this volume ask how we should understand these interventions and what are their legacies in the twentieth and twenty first centuries? Inspired by the work of the radical literary scholar, the late Sally Ledger, this volume provides ... Read more
This book takes a fresh look at the progressive interventions of writers in the nineteenth century. From Cobbett to Dickens and George Eliot, and including a host of lesser known figures – popular novelists, poets, journalists, political activists – writers shared a commitment to exploring the potential of literature as a medium in which to imagine new and better worlds. The essays in this volume ask how we should understand these interventions and what are their legacies in the twentieth and twenty first centuries? Inspired by the work of the radical literary scholar, the late Sally Ledger, this volume provides ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Number of Pages
243
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137597052
SKU
V9781137597052
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99-15
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Joseph Bristow is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. His most recent book (coauthored with Rebecca N. Mitchell) is Oscar Wilde’s Chatterton: Literary History, Romanticism, and the Art of Forgery (2015). He is completing a study of Oscar Wilde’s criminal trials. Josephine McDonagh is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at King’s College London, UK. She ... Read more
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