Dickens and democracy in the age of paper : representing the people /
This work examines Charles Dickens's fiction alongside publications emanating from Parliament. It argues that Dickens and Parliament were engaged in competitive efforts to represent the People at a crucial moment in the history of representative democracy, when the British government was under...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2022].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | This work examines Charles Dickens's fiction alongside publications emanating from Parliament. It argues that Dickens and Parliament were engaged in competitive efforts to represent the People at a crucial moment in the history of representative democracy, when the British government was under enormous political pressure to expand the franchise beyond a narrow band of male landowners. Contending that fiction and the literature of Parliament interacted at a host of levels, jostling one another in the same bookshops, it reads Dickens's novels in tandem with blue books, the practice texts of shorthand manuals and Dickens's journalism. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 353 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [329]-344) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780192845405 0192845403 |