This book takes a fresh look at the progressive interventions of writers in the nineteenth century. From Cobbett to Dickens and George Eliot, and including a host of lesser known figures – popular novelists, poets, journalists, political activists – writers shared a commitment to exploring the potential of literature as a medium in which to imagine new and better worlds. The essays in this volume ask how we should understand these interventions and what are their legacies in the t...
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List of Figures.- Preface and Acknowledgements.- Contributors.- Introduction; Joseph Bristow and Josephine Mc Donagh.- 1.
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Sobre o autor
Joseph Bristow is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. His most recent book (coauthored with Rebecca N. Mitchell) i...