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Reform Acts: Chartism, Social Agency, and the Victorian Novel, 1832-1867

By Chris R. Vanden Bossche
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By Chris R. Vanden Bossche
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How Victorian novels imagined the idea of social agency.

Reform Acts offers a new approach to prominent questions raised in recent studies of the novel. By examining social agency from a historical rather than theoretical perspective, Chris R. Vanden Bossche investigates how particular assumptions involving agency came into being. Through readings of both canonical and noncanonical Victorian literature, he demonstrates that the Victorian tension between reform and revolution framed conceptio...

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