Nineteenth-Century Radical Traditions

Joseph Bristow is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. His most recent book (coauthored with Rebecca N. Mitchell) is Oscar Wilde’s Chatterton: Literary History, Romanticism, and the Art of Forgery (2015). He is completing a study of Oscar Wilde’s criminal trials.Josephine McDonagh is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at King’s College London, UK. She is the author of monographs on the works of Thomas De Quincey and George Eliot, and a wide-ranging study entitled Child Murder in British Culture 1720-1900 (2003). She is currently completing a study of migration and nineteenth-century British literature.

• List of Figures.- Preface and Acknowledgements.- Contributors.- Introduction; Joseph Bristow and Josephine McDonagh.- 1.No Laughing Matter: Chartism and the Limits of Satire; Mike Sanders.- 2. ‘Their Deadly Longing’: Paternalism, the Past, and Perversion in Barnaby Rudge; Ben Winyard.- 3. Frederick William Robinson, Charles Dickens, and the Literary Tradition of ‘Low Life’; Anne Schwan.- 4. Remembering Radicalism on the Midlands Turnpike: George Eliot, Felix Holt, and William Cobbett; Ruth Livesey.- 5. The Commune in Exile: Urban Insurrection and the Production of International Space; Scott McCracken.- 6. Divorce and the New Woman; Anne Humphreys.- 7. Revolutions in Journalism: W. T. Stead, Indexing, and ‘Searching’; Laurel Brake.- 8. Towards a Perlocutionary Poetics?; Isobel Armstrong.- Sally Ledger: A Chronological Bibliography.- Bibliography.- Index.-