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Dickens and Democracy in the Age of Paper

Representing the People

By: Carolyn Vellenga Berman

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Dickens and Democracy in the Age of Paper

Representing the People

By: Carolyn Vellenga Berman

This book examines Charles Dickens's fiction alongside publications emanating from Parliament. It argues that Dickens and Parliament were engaged in competitive efforts to represent the People at a crucial moment in the history of representative democracy--when the British government was under enormous political pressure to expand the franchise beyond a narrow band of male landowners. Contending that fiction and the literature of Parliament interacted at a host of levels--jostling one another in the same bookshops--it reads Dickens's novels in tandem with blue books, the practice texts of shorthand manuals, and Dickens's journalism. It shows how his fiction mocks parliamentary form (as in Pickwick Papers), canvasses the history of parliamentary representation (as in Bleak House), and depicts the relation of the People to the state as well as commerce (as in Little Dorrit). It thus rethinks the history of the Victorian novel by examining its rivalry with Parliament in the expanding world of print publication.

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Oxford University Press

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0192659936

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9780192659934

Creole Crossings

Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery

By: Carolyn Vellenga Berman

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Creole Crossings

Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery

By: Carolyn Vellenga Berman

The character of the Creole woman—the descendant of settlers or slaves brought up on the colonial frontier—is a familiar one in nineteenth-century French, British, and American literature. In Creole Crossings, Carolyn Vellenga Berman examines the use of this recurring figure in such canonical novels as Jane Eyre, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Indiana, as well as in the antislavery discourse of the period. "Creole" in its etymological sense means "brought up domestically," and Berman shows how the campaign to reform slavery in the colonies converged with literary depictions of family life. Illuminating a literary genealogy that crosses political, familial, and linguistic lines, Creole Crossings reveals how racial, sexual, and moral boundaries continually shifted as the century's writers reflected on the realities of slavery, empire, and the home front. Berman offers compelling readings of the "domestic fiction" of Honoré de Balzac, Charlotte Brontë, Maria Edgeworth, Harriet Jacobs, George Sand, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and others, alongside travel narratives, parliamentary reports, medical texts, journalism, and encyclopedias. Focusing on a neglected social classification in both fiction and nonfiction, Creole Crossings establishes the crucial importance of the Creole character as a marker of sexual norms and national belonging.

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Cornell University Press

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1501726838

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Dickens and Democracy in the Age of Paper

Representing the People

By: Carolyn Vellenga Berman

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9780192659934

Creole Crossings

Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery

By: Carolyn Vellenga Berman

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Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery

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Dickens and Democracy in the Age of Paper

Dickens and Democracy in the Age of Paper

Creole Crossings

Creole Crossings

Dickens and Democracy in the Age of Paper

Dickens and Democracy in the Age of Paper

Creole Crossings

Creole Crossings

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