New PDF release: Nineteenth-Century Radical Traditions (Palgrave Studies in

By Joseph Bristow,Josephine McDonagh

This publication takes a clean examine the revolutionary interventions of writers within the 19th century. From Cobbett to Dickens and George Eliot, and together with a bunch of lesser recognized figures – renowned novelists, poets, newshounds, political activists – writers shared a dedication to exploring the potential for literature as a medium during which to visualize new and higher worlds. The essays during this quantity ask how we should always comprehend those interventions and what are their legacies within the 20th and 21st centuries? encouraged through the paintings of the unconventional literary student, the past due Sally Ledger, this quantity offers a statement at the political traditions that underpin the literature of this complicated interval, and examines the interpretive equipment which are had to comprehend them. This well timed booklet contributes to our appreciation of the novel traditions that underpin our literary past.

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