An Underground History of Early Victorian Fiction Chartism, Radical Print Culture, and the Social Problem Novel
Book contents
- An Underground History of Early Victorian Fiction
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-century Literature and Culture
- An Underground History of Early Victorian Fiction
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Can a Social Problem Speak?
- Part I Social Citizenship in the Poor Law Debates
- Chapter 1 Social Inheritance in the New Poor Law Debate: William Cobbett, Harriet Martineau, and the Royal Commission of Inquiry
- Chapter 2 Books of (Social) Murder: Melodrama and the Slow Violence of the Market in Anti-New Poor Law Satire, Fiction, and Journalism
- Part II Chartist Fiction and Culture
- Part III Radical Internationalism in the 1840s and 1850s
- Notes
- Sources Cited
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Chapter 2 - Books of (Social) Murder: Melodrama and the Slow Violence of the Market in Anti-New Poor Law Satire, Fiction, and Journalism
from Part I - Social Citizenship in the Poor Law Debates
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 November 2017
Book contents
- An Underground History of Early Victorian Fiction
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-century Literature and Culture
- An Underground History of Early Victorian Fiction
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Can a Social Problem Speak?
- Part I Social Citizenship in the Poor Law Debates
- Chapter 1 Social Inheritance in the New Poor Law Debate: William Cobbett, Harriet Martineau, and the Royal Commission of Inquiry
- Chapter 2 Books of (Social) Murder: Melodrama and the Slow Violence of the Market in Anti-New Poor Law Satire, Fiction, and Journalism
- Part II Chartist Fiction and Culture
- Part III Radical Internationalism in the 1840s and 1850s
- Notes
- Sources Cited
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
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- An Underground History of Early Victorian FictionChartism, Radical Print Culture, and the Social Problem Novel, pp. 68 - 96Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017