Dickens and Democracy in the Age of Paper: Representing the People by Berman, Carolyn Vellenga

Dickens and Democracy in the Age of Paper: Representing the People (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780192845405)

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Dickens and Democracy in the Age of Paper: Representing the People by Berman, Carolyn Vellenga

Dickens and Democracy in the Age of Paper: Representing the People

$125.00
Dickens and Democracy in the Age of Paper: Representing the People by Berman, Carolyn Vellenga

Dickens and Democracy in the Age of Paper: Representing the People

$125.00
Format: Hardcover
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This book 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. It shows how his fiction mocks parliamentary form (as in Pickwick Papers), canvasses the history of parliamentary representation (as in Bleak House), and depicts the relation of the People to the state as well as commerce (as in Little Dorrit). It thus rethinks the history of the Victorian novel by examining its rivalry with Parliament in the expanding world of print publication.

Author: Carolyn Vellenga Berman
ISBN-10: 0192845403
ISBN-13: 9780192845405
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 05/17/2022
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.10d

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Choice 04/01/2023
By Carolyn Vellenga Berman
By Carolyn Vellenga Berman
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Carolyn Vellenga Berman, Associate Professor of Literature and Co-Chair of Literary Studies, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School, New York City

Carolyn Vellenga Berman (Ph.D., Brown University) is an Associate Professor of literature and Co-Chair of Literary Studies at Eugene Lang College, The New School, in New York City. She is the author of Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery (Cornell University Press). Her articles have appeared in Victorian Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture, Novel, Genre, and Nineteenth-Century Contexts and collections ranging from Just Below South (University of Virginia) to The Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature (Blackwell). She serves on the advisory board of the North American Victorian Studies Association and the editorial board of Dickens Studies Annual.

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