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The Oppositional Aesthetics of Chartist Fiction - Reading against the Middle-Class Novel (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Oppositional Aesthetics of Chartist Fiction - Reading against the Middle-Class Novel (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Redressing a gap in Chartism studies, Rob Breton focuses on the
fiction that emerged from the movement, placing it in the context
of the Victorian novel and reading it against the works aimed at
the middle-class. Breton examines works by well-known writers such
as Ernest Jones and Thomas Cooper alongside those of obscure or
anonymous writers, rejecting the charge that Chartist fiction fails
aesthetically, politically, and culturally. Rather, Breton
suggests, it constitutes a type of anti-fiction in which the
expectations of narrative are revealed as irreconcilable to the
real world. Taking up a range of genres, including the historical
romance and social-problem story, Breton theorizes the emergence of
the fiction against Marxist conceptualizations of cultural
hegemony. In situating Chartist fiction in periodical print culture
and specific historical moments, this book shows the ways in which
it serves as a critique of mainstream Victorian fiction.
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