CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE AND CULTURE
The Revolution in Popular Literature
Print, Politics and the People 1790–1860
Ian Haywood
Published July 2004 | Hardback | 352 pages 18 half-tones | ISBN: 0521835461
This survey of the evolution of British popular literature during the Romantic
and Victorian periods relies on a broad range of archival and primary sources.
Arguing that radical politics played a decisive role in the transformation of
popular literature, Ian Haywood charts key moments in the history of "cheap"
literature. The book accordingly casts new light on many neglected popular
genres and texts: the "pig's meat" anthology, the female-authored didactic
tale, and Chartist fiction.
Contents
Illustrations
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. ‘A New Area in Our History’: 1. The people’s Enlightenment: the radical
diffusion of knowledge in the late eighteenth century
2. Writing for their country: the plebeian public sphere in the 1790s
3. The pax femina? Hannah More, counter-revolution, and the politics of female
agency
Part II. ‘Virtuous Public Excitement’: 4. The Palladium of liberty: radical
journalism and repression in the postwar era
5. ‘Democratic fervour and journal ascendancy’: popular culture and the
‘unstamped’ wars of the 1830s
Part III. A Literature of Their Own: 6. The Chartist revolution
7. Fathers of the cheap press or ‘able speculators’? Edward Lloyd and George W.
M. Reynolds
8. The rights and wrongs of women
9. Acts of oblivion: 1848 and after.
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