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Dickens and the popular radical imagination

The extent to which the fiction and journalism of Charles Dickens were rooted in, and continued to respond to, the popular radical culture of his time has been so far unexplored. The author offers substantial new readings of the influences of radical writers on works from Pickwick to Little Dorrit
Print Book, English, 2007
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780521845779, 0521845777
76798221
Introduction : Dickens and the popular radical imagination
Popular radical culture in Regency England : Peterloo and the Queen Caroline Affair
Dickens and nineteenth-century show trials
Dickens, popular culture and popular politics in the 1830s : Oliver Twist
Christmas is cancelled : Dickens and Douglas Jerrold writing the 1840s
Popular and political writing in the radical press : from Douglas Jerrold to Ernest Jones, Chartist
Household words, politics and the mass market in the 1850s
Flunkeyism and toadyism in the age of machinery : from Bleak House to Little Dorrit