Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 329 g
The Man Who Outsold Dickens
Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 329 g
Reihe: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
ISBN: 978-0-367-66363-6
Verlag: Routledge
George Reynolds is arguably the most prolific of all nineteenth-century English novelists, reaching an enormous audience through his thirty-six novels. Often selling in very large numbers in weekly one-penny installments, his works were known as by the most popular English novelist ever. Yet today, he remains almost unknown in the canon of English Literature.
A serious radical, strongly pro-woman, and a leading Chartist seeking the vote for all men, Reynolds’ vigorous heroines differ notably from the Victorian novelists’ timid norm. He was strongly pro-Jewish and pro-Gypsy, very interested in French and Italian society, but wrote for ordinary English working people. Dickens thought him a dangerous leftist: for all these reasons, he was excluded from the elite literary world.
G. W. M. Reynolds: The Man Who Outsold Dickens reestablishes Reynolds as a major figure of mid-nineteenth-century fiction and an author of European range and status. This book examines his massive popularity and notable concern with the problems of ordinary people, especially women, in the complex and often dangerous new world of the modern city. With the support of his wife Susannah, Reynolds’ enormous influence would also make a contribution to the cause of mass political education through his role in the development of popular fiction and journalism. This book is a major innovation in the field of Victorian literary studies, with relevance to popular cultural studies, the politics of literature, and publishing history, presenting properly a much overlooked major English novelist.
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Postgraduate and Undergraduate
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Weitere Infos & Material
Preface Introduction 1. Reynolds and His Novels 2. Reynold’s Reception 3. Approaching Reynolds’ Fiction Chapter 1 Towards London and the Mysteries; First Moves in Fiction; Pickwick Abroad; Alfred de Rosann; Grace Darling; Robert Macaire; The Steam-Packet; The Drunkard’s Tale; Master Timothy’s Bookcase; Chapter 2 The Mysteries of London; Section 1: Volumes 1-2: The Markhams, Self-Managing Women, The Resurrection Man, and Other Criminals; Introduction; Major Male Figures; Major Female Figures; Minor Characters, Noble, Troubled, and Vicious; Criminals Great and Small; Socio-Political Commentary Section 2 A: Volumes 3-4: Chapters 1-119, 1826-7: Aristocratic Families, Insurgent Women, Contemporary Politics; 2.A.1 Aristocratic Interactions; 2.A.2 The Master Criminal; 2.A.3 Comic Non-Gentry; 2.A.4 Corrupt Non-Gentry, and Some Decent Relatives; 2.A.5 Minor Figures, Respectable and Criminal; Section 2 B: Volume 4: Chapters 120-209, 1846-7: Modern Gentry, Bourgeoisie, Seductresses, and Criminals. 2.B.1 The Gentry in the Present; 2.B 2 Modern Seductresses; 2.B.3 New Aristocratic Dramas; 2.B.4 Modern Criminals; 2.B.5 Satirical and Political Commentary; Section 3 The Mysteries of London, Series 3 and 4; Chapter 3 Mysteries Historicized: The Days of Hoga.
