{"product_id":"dickens-and-democracy-in-the-age-of-paper-representing-the-people-9780192845405","title":"Dickens and Democracy in the Age of Paper: Representing the People","description":"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 \u003cem\u003ePickwick Papers\u003c\/em\u003e), canvasses the history of parliamentary representation (as in \u003cem\u003eBleak House\u003c\/em\u003e), and depicts the relation of the People to the state as well as commerce (as in \u003cem\u003eLittle Dorrit\u003c\/em\u003e). It thus rethinks the history of the Victorian novel by examining its rivalry with Parliament in the expanding world of print publication.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carolyn Vellenga Berman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/17\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.5lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780192845405","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43784581251209,"sku":"9780192845405","price":135.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_32911769-8d98-46b4-8a23-3b25f336e664.jpg?v=1742274741","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/dickens-and-democracy-in-the-age-of-paper-representing-the-people-9780192845405","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}