{"product_id":"dickens-and-democracy-in-the-carolyn-vellenga-berman-9780192845405","title":"Dickens and Democracy in the Age of Paper: Representing the People","description":"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 \u003cem\u003ePickwick Papers\u003c\/em\u003e), canvasses the history of parliamentary representation (as in \u003cem\u003eBleak House\u003c\/em\u003e), and depicts the relation of the People to the state as well as commerce (as in \u003cem\u003eLittle Dorrit\u003c\/em\u003e). It thus rethinks the history of the Victorian novel by examining its rivalry with Parliament in the expanding world of print publication.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carolyn Vellenga Berman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0192845403\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780192845405\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/17\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2023","brand":"Carolyn Vellenga Berman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43982094205183,"sku":"9780192845405","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3cf9e21d-9c6c-4e53-8a2d-800a89f9af06.jpg?v=1683259194","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dickens-and-democracy-in-the-carolyn-vellenga-berman-9780192845405","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}