Chartist Fiction

Volume Two

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-64465-6 (ISBN)

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First published in 2001. When the Chartist leader Ernest Jones emerged from prison in 1850, he was determined to capture the public’s attention with a controversial and topical novel. The result of his endeavours was the remarkable Woman’s Wrongs, a series of five tales exploring women’s oppression at every level of society from the working class to the aristocracy. Each story presents a graphic, often harrowing account of the social, economic and emotional victimization of women, and taken together the tales comprise a devastating indictment of Victorian patriarchal attitudes and sexual inequalities.

In his substantial Introduction, Ian Haywood places the novel in the context of Jones’s career as a Chartist author and editor, and in the wider context of the ‘woman question’. Some of the topics covered by the Introduction include: the radical press and popular enlightenment, Jones’s rivalry with George W. M. Reynolds, and the needlewoman as radical icon. This title will be of interest to students of history.

Ian Haywood

Acknowledgements; Editor’s Introduction; Woman’s Wrongs; The Working Man’s Wife; The Young Milliner; The Tradesman’s Daughter; The Girl with the Red Hands; The Lady of Title

Erscheinungsdatum	08.12.2017
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-138-64465-X / 113864465X
ISBN-13	978-1-138-64465-6 / 9781138644656
Zustand	Neuware