This is the first study for more than ten years of this radical genre, covering working class literature over the last 150 years. It argues that working-class fiction has flourished in periods of major social and political change.
This book therefore aims to chronicle and analyse this achievement. This book will be the first dedicated study of the remarkable role of Georgian caricature in the equally remarkable Queen Caroline controversy of 1820-21.
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Editor's Introduction -- Woman's Wrongs -- The Working Man's Wife -- The Young Milliner -- The Tradesman's Daughter -- The Girl with the Red Hands -- The ...
This book serves as a retrieval and reevaluation of a rich haul of comic caricatures from the turbulent years between the Reform Bill crisis of the early 1830s and the rise and fall of Chartism in the 1840s.
This work represents a major remapping of the literary history of the 1950s. It reveals the importance of women, hitherto underestimated, in postwar society. Also, it offers a reinterpretation of many familiar texts of the period.