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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1. Verfasser: Berman, Carolyn Vellenga (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY Oxford University Press 2022
Ausgabe:First edition
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:ix, 353 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9780192845405

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