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

Carolyn Vellenga Berman

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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 underenormous 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 ofshorthand 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 thusrethinks the history of the Victorian novel by examining its rivalry with Parliament in the expanding world of print publication.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Dickens and Democracy in the Age of Paper: Representing the People. To get started finding Dickens and Democracy in the Age of Paper: Representing the People, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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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 underenormous 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 ofshorthand 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 thusrethinks the history of the Victorian novel by examining its rivalry with Parliament in the expanding world of print publication.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Dickens and Democracy in the Age of Paper: Representing the People. To get started finding Dickens and Democracy in the Age of Paper: Representing the People, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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