G.W.M. Reynolds Reimagined

Jennifer Conary is Associate Professor of English at DePaul University, Chicago, USA, and author of numerous articles on Victorian literature and culture. Mary L. Shannon is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Roehampton, London, UK, author of Dickens, Reynolds and Mayhew on Wellington Street: the Print Culture of a Victorian Street (2015), and co-editor of Romanticism and Illustration (2019), with Ian Haywood and Susan Matthews. She is currently working on her second book, Billy Waters is Dancing: How One Black Sailor Found Fame in Regency and Victorian Britain.

• List of contributorsForeword: Early Reynolds Research: RecollectionsLouis JamesEditors’ AcknowledgementsINTRODUCTION: Reynolds Reimagined: Locating G.W.M. Reynolds in Victorian StudiesJennifer Conary and Mary L. ShannonI: AUTHORSHIP1. Dickensian Departures: Innovation and Originality in G.W.M. Reynolds’s Pickwick AbroadJennifer Conary2. ‘Lost, as it were, from amidst the assemblage of my literary productions’: Authorial agency from scissors-and-paste to remix in Reynolds’s translationsManon Burz-Labrande and Marie Léger-St-Jean3. Two Mid-Nineteenth-Century Popular Radical Novelists: G.W.M. Reynolds and Wilkie CollinsStephen Knight4. ‘A Comic Writer of Some Distinction’: Reimagining G.W.M. Reynolds through the Madras Comic AlmanacMary L. ShannonII: RADICALISM5. Reynolds's Newspaper and Victorian Populism, 1850-79Rohan McWilliam6. ‘One of the Bastards of the Mountain’: George W. M. Reynolds’s Red Republican and Socialist IdeologyStephen Basdeo7. Dining with Reynolds: The Reports of Reynolds’s Annual FestivalAnne Humpherys8. George W. M. Reynolds and the Republic of EuropeIan HaywoodIII: GENRE9. Sisterhoods, Doppelgangers, Republicans: Reynolds’s Radical MysteriesSara Hackenberg10. ‘If I be a wretch, it is you who made me so’: the disintegrated narrative of Lydia Hutchinson in The Mysteries of LondonRuth Doherty11. Reynoldsian Women: Sexualisation and Female AgencyMollie Clarke12. Lord of Misrule: Reynolds’s Radical Christmas FictionRebecca NesvetIV: BEYOND13. Translating Reynolds to the Pacific and Widening Victorian StudiesCraig HowesBibliographyIndex