Reform acts [electronic resource] : Chartism, social agency, and the Victorian novel, 1832-1867 / Chris R. Vanden Bossche.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:- 9781421412092
- 1421412098
- 823.009/355 23
- PR830.S6 V36 2014
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Social agency: the franchise, class discourse and national narratives -- Social agency in the chartist and parliamentary press -- Egalitarian chivalry and popular agency in Wat Tyler -- Unconsummated marriage and the "uncommitted" gunpowder plot in Guy Fawkes -- Class alliance and self-culture in Barnaby Rudge -- Agricultural reform, young England's allotments, and the chartist land plan -- The landed estate, finely graded hierarchy and the member of parliament in Coningsby and Sybil -- Agricultural improvement and the squirearchy in Hillingdon Hall -- The land plan, class dichotomy, and working-class agency in sunshine and shadow -- Christian socialism and cooperative association -- Clergy and working-class cooperation in Yeast and Alton Locke -- Reforming trades unionism in Mary Barton and North and South -- Coda: Rethinking reform in the era of the Second Reform Act, 1860-1867.
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