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G. W. M. Reynolds and His Fiction - The Man Who Outsold Dickens (Hardcover)
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G. W. M. Reynolds and His Fiction - The Man Who Outsold Dickens (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
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George Reynolds is arguably the most prolific of all
nineteenth-century English novelists, reaching an enormous audience
through his thirty-six novels. Often selling in very large numbers
in weekly one-penny installments, his works were known as by the
most popular English novelist ever. Yet today, he remains almost
unknown in the canon of English Literature. A serious radical,
strongly pro-woman, and a leading Chartist seeking the vote for all
men, Reynolds' vigorous heroines differ notably from the Victorian
novelists' timid norm. He was strongly pro-Jewish and pro-Gypsy,
very interested in French and Italian society, but wrote for
ordinary English working people. Dickens thought him a dangerous
leftist: for all these reasons, he was excluded from the elite
literary world. G. W. M. Reynolds: The Man Who Outsold Dickens
reestablishes Reynolds as a major figure of mid-nineteenth-century
fiction and an author of European range and status. This book
examines his massive popularity and notable concern with the
problems of ordinary people, especially women, in the complex and
often dangerous new world of the modern city. With the support of
his wife Susannah, Reynolds' enormous influence would also make a
contribution to the cause of mass political education through his
role in the development of popular fiction and journalism. This
book is a major innovation in the field of Victorian literary
studies, with relevance to popular cultural studies, the politics
of literature, and publishing history, presenting properly a much
overlooked major English novelist.
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