Reform Acts: Chartism, Social Agency, and the Victorian Novel, 1832-1867 by Chri

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Reform Acts by Chris R. Vanden Bossche By including novels written from a range of political perspectives, Vanden Bossche discovers patterns in Victorian thinking that are easily recognized in todays assumptions about social hierarchy. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Reform Acts offers a new approach to prominent questions raised in recent studies of the novel. By examining social agency from a historical rather than theoretical perspective, Chris R. Vanden Bossche investigates how particular assumptions involving agency came into being. Through readings of both canonical and noncanonical Victorian literature, he demonstrates that the Victorian tension between reform and revolution framed conceptions of agency in ways that persist in our own time. Vanden Bossche argues that Victorian novels sought to imagine new forms of social agency evolving from Chartism, the dominant working-class movement of the time. Novelists envisioned alternative forms of social agency by employing contemporary discourses from Chartisms focus on suffrage as well as the means through which it sought to obtain it, such as moral versus physical force, land reform, and the cooperative movement. Each of the three parts of Reform Acts begins with a chapter that analyzes contemporary conversations and debates about social agency in the press and in political debate.Succeeding chapters examine how novels envision ways of effecting social change, for example, class alliance in Barnaby Rudge; landed estates as well as finely graded hierarchy and politicians in Coningsby and Sybil; and reforming trade unionism in Mary Barton and North and South. By including novels written from a range of political perspectives, Vanden Bossche discovers patterns in Victorian thinking that are easily recognized in todays assumptions about social hierarchy. Author Biography Chris R. Vanden Bossche is a professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, author of Carlyle and the Search for Authority, editor of Thomas Carlyle: Historical Essays, and coeditor of Thomas Carlyle: Past and Present. Table of Contents Acknowledgments1. Social Agency: The Franchise, Class Discourse, and National NarrativesPart I: Making Physical Force Moral: The Dilemma of Chartism, 1838–18422. Social Agency in the Chartist and Parliamentary Press3. Egalitarian Chivalry and Popular Agency in Wat Tyler4. Unconsummated Marriage and the "Uncommitted" Gunpowder Plot in Guy Fawkes5. Class Alliance and Self-Culture in Barnaby RudgePart II: "The land! The land! The land!": Land Ownership as Political Reform, 1842–18486. Agricultural Reform, Young Englands Allotments, and the Chartist Land Plan7. The Landed Estate, Finely Graded Hierarchy, and the Member of Parliament in Coningsby and Sybil8. Agricultural Improvement and the Squirearchy in Hillingdon Hall9. The Land Plan, Class Dichotomy, and Working-Class Agency inSunshine and ShadowPart III: The Social Turn: From Chartism to Cooperation and Trade Unionism, 1848–185510. Christian Socialism and Cooperative Association11. Clergy and Working-Class Cooperation in Yeast and Alton Locke12. Reforming Trade Unionism in Mary Barton and North and SouthCoda: Rethinking Reform in the Era of the Second Reform Act, 1860–1867NotesWorks CitedIndex Review Chris R. Vanden Bossche explores the subject of reform as the dominant ideal in English progressive politics... his work does offer some illuminating insights into this particular trait of Victorian self-representation. Times Literary Supplement Students of 19th-century history, literature, and political science will find fresh insights here. Choice Thoughtful... persuasive... The key contribution of the book is the way Vanden Bossche highlights curious and subtle rhetorical tricks whereby writers of the Whig and Tory side seek to align the interests of the working class with their own. -- John Plotz Journal of British Studies A welcome and timely boost to scholarship in the relationship between literature and politics in mid-nineteenth-century Britain. -- Simon Rennie Review of English Studies Promotional At once boldly revisionist and meticulously argued, Reform Acts re-orients our approach to class politics and ideological criticism. Asking how the Victorians themselves understood the concept of agency, Vanden Bossche traces dynamic interchanges among class antagonists across multiple genres to delineate the shape of social change in the nineteenth century. -- Ellen Rosenman, University of Kentucky Long Description Reform Acts offers a new approach to prominent questions raised in recent studies of the novel. By examining social agency from a historical rather than theoretical perspective, Chris R. Vanden Bossche investigates how particular assumptions involving agency came into being. Through readings of both canonical and noncanonical Victorian literature, he demonstrates that the Victorian tension between reform and revolution framed conceptions of agency in ways that persist in our own time.Vanden Bossche argues that Victorian novels sought to imagine new forms of social agency evolving from Chartism, the dominant working-class movement of the time. Novelists envisioned alternative forms of social agency by employing contemporary discourses from Chartisms focus on suffrage as well as the means through which it sought to obtain it, such as moral versus physical force, land reform, and the cooperative movement.Each of the three parts of Reform Acts begins with a chapter that analyzes contemporary conversations and debates about social agency in the press and in political debate. Succeeding chapters examine how novels envision ways of effecting social change, for example, class alliance in Barnaby Rudge; landed estates as well as finely graded hierarchy and politicians in Coningsby and Sybil; and reforming trade unionism in Mary Barton and North and South. By including novels written from a range of political perspectives, Vanden Bossche discovers patterns in Victorian thinking that are easily recognized in todays assumptions about social hierarchy. Review Text ""A welcome and timely boost to scholarship in the relationship between literature and politics in mid-nineteenth-century Britain."" Review Quote Thoughtful... persuasive... The key contribution of the book is the way Vanden Bossche highlights curious and subtle rhetorical tricks whereby writers of the Whig and Tory side seek to align the interests of the working class with their own. Promotional "Headline" How Victorian novels imagined the idea of social agency. Details ISBN142141208X Author Chris R. Vanden Bossche Pages 264 Audience Age 17 Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press Year 2014 ISBN-10 142141208X ISBN-13 9781421412085 Format Hardcover Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press Place of Publication Baltimore, MD Country of Publication United States Affiliation Associate Professor of English, University of Notre Dame, USA DEWEY 823.809358 Short Title REFORM ACTS Language English Media Book Illustrations No Publication Date 2014-03-29 NZ Release Date 2014-03-29 US Release Date 2014-03-29 UK Release Date 2014-03-29 Subtitle Chartism, Social Agency, and the Victorian Novel, 1832–1867 Alternative 9781421412092 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2014-02-14 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! 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