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Bazaar Literature - Charity, Advocacy, and Parody in Victorian Social Reform Fiction (Hardcover)
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Bazaar Literature - Charity, Advocacy, and Parody in Victorian Social Reform Fiction (Hardcover)
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Bazaar Literature reorients our understanding of Victorian social
reform fiction by reading it in light of the copious amount of
literature generated for charity bazaars. Bazaars were ubiquitous
during the nineteenth century, part of the vibrant and massive
private sector response to a rapidly industrializing society.
Typically organized and run by women, charity bazaars were often
called "fancy fairs" since they specialized in ladies' hand-crafted
"fancy" work. Indeed, they were a key method women used to
intervene in political, social, and cultural affairs. Yet their
conventional purpose-to raise money for charity-has led to their
being widely overlooked and misunderstood. Bazaar Literature
remedies these misconceptions by demonstrating how the literature
written in conjunction with bazaars shaped the social, political,
and literary movements of its time. This study draws upon a wide
variety of texts printed to be sold at bazaars, including
literature by Robert Louis Stevenson, Harriet Martineau, and
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, alongside fictional depictions of fancy
fairs by Charlotte Yonge, George Eliot, Frances Trollope, and
Anthony Trollope. The book revises our understanding of the larger
literary market in social reform fiction, revealing a parodic,
self-critical strain that is paradoxically braided with strident
political activism and its realist sensibilities.
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