This book takes a new look at the evolution of popular literature in Britain in the Romantic and Victorian periods.

A comprehensive introduction to working-class literature over the last 150 years showing how many of these texts have consistently challenged dominant literary, critical and social values.

Overall, the volume offers important new insights into the relationship between art, satire and politics in a key period of history.

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 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.

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 book studies the impact of violence on the writing of the Romantic period.

This book studies the impact of violence on the writing of the Romantic period.

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.