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G. W. M. Reynolds and His Fiction

Author : Stephen Knight
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429018237

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G. W. M. Reynolds and His Fiction by Stephen Knight Pdf

George Reynolds is arguably the most prolific of all nineteenth-century English novelists, reaching an enormous audience through his thirty-six novels. Often selling in very large numbers in weekly one-penny installments, his works were known as by the most popular English novelist ever. Yet today, he remains almost unknown in the canon of English Literature. A serious radical, strongly pro-woman, and a leading Chartist seeking the vote for all men, Reynolds’ vigorous heroines differ notably from the Victorian novelists’ timid norm. He was strongly pro-Jewish and pro-Gypsy, very interested in French and Italian society, but wrote for ordinary English working people. Dickens thought him a dangerous leftist: for all these reasons, he was excluded from the elite literary world. G. W. M. Reynolds: The Man Who Outsold Dickens reestablishes Reynolds as a major figure of mid-nineteenth-century fiction and an author of European range and status. This book examines his massive popularity and notable concern with the problems of ordinary people, especially women, in the complex and often dangerous new world of the modern city. With the support of his wife Susannah, Reynolds’ enormous influence would also make a contribution to the cause of mass political education through his role in the development of popular fiction and journalism. This book is a major innovation in the field of Victorian literary studies, with relevance to popular cultural studies, the politics of literature, and publishing history, presenting properly a much overlooked major English novelist.

G.W.M. Reynolds

Author : Anne Humpherys
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351935081

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G.W.M. Reynolds by Anne Humpherys Pdf

G.W.M. Reynolds (1814-1879) had a major impact on the mid-Victorian era that until now has been largely unacknowledged. A prolific novelist whose work had a massive circulation, and an influential journalist and editor, he was a man of contradictions in both his life and writing: a middle-class figure who devoted his life to working class issues but seldom missed a chance to profit from the exploitation of current issues; the founder of the radical newspaper Reynolds Weekly, as well as a bestselling author of historical romances, gothic and sensation novels, oriental tales, and domestic fiction; a perennial bankrupt who nevertheless ended his life prosperously. A figure of such diversity requires a collaborative study. Bringing together a distinguished group of scholars, this volume does justice to the full range of Reynolds's achievement and influence. With proper emphasis on new work in the field, the contributors take on Reynolds's involvement with Chartism, serial publication, the mass market periodical, commodity culture, and the introduction of French literature into British consciousness, to name just a few of the topics covered. The Mysteries of London, the century's most widely read serial, receives the extensive treatment this long-running urban gothic work deserves. Adding to the volume's usefulness are comprehensive bibliographies of Reynolds's own writings and secondary criticism relevant to the study of this central figure in mid-nineteenth-century Britain.

The Mysteries of London

Author : George William MacArthur Reynolds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSC:32106010644471

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The Mysteries of London by George William MacArthur Reynolds Pdf

The Mysteries of the Court of London (Classic Reprint)

Author : George William MacArthur Reynolds
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0483286591

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The Mysteries of the Court of London (Classic Reprint) by George William MacArthur Reynolds Pdf

Excerpt from The Mysteries of the Court of London The command of Lady Ernestina was peremptory enough for the Hangman to take his departure, but still he moved not. That is to say, though he quailed and even grew afraid in her presence, for there was something terrible in her wrath, yet he did not issue from the room. A sort of unknown fascination kept him there. He felt as if circumstances had now so mixed up her fortunes with his own that he must not abandon her. Or perhaps, in his own savage, brutal style, he entertained a fancy we dare not use the word affection - for that splendid patrician creature of whose person he had ere now possessed himself. But whatever the feeling were, certain it is that he lingered in her presence, unable to leave; yet not knowing how to propitiate her. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf

Author : George W.M. Reynolds
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486799292

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Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf by George W.M. Reynolds Pdf

The first important fictional treatment of the werewolf theme in English literature, this Victorian thriller traces Wagner's blood-soaked trail through 16th-century Italy in a gothic feast of murder and intrigue.

Indian Genre Fiction

Author : Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay,Aakriti Mandhwani,Anwesha Maity
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429850905

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Indian Genre Fiction by Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay,Aakriti Mandhwani,Anwesha Maity Pdf

This volume maps the breadth and domain of genre literature in India across seven languages (Tamil, Urdu, Bangla, Hindi, Odia, Marathi and English) and nine genres for the first time. Over the last few decades, detective/crime fiction and especially science fiction/fantasy have slowly made their way into university curricula and consideration by literary critics in India and the West. However, there has been no substantial study of genre fiction in the Indian languages, least of all from a comparative perspective. This volume, with contributions from leading national and international scholars, addresses this lacuna in critical scholarship and provides an overview of diverse genre fictions. Using methods from literary analysis, book history and Indian aesthetic theories, the volume throws light on the variety of contexts in which genre literature is read, activated and used, from political debates surrounding national and regional identities to caste and class conflicts. It shows that Indian genre fiction (including pulp fiction, comics and graphic novels) transmutes across languages, time periods, in translation and through publication processes. While the book focuses on contemporary postcolonial genre literature production, it also draws connections to individual, centuries-long literary traditions of genre literature in the Indian subcontinent. Further, it traces contested hierarchies within these languages as well as current trends in genre fiction criticism. Lucid and comprehensive, this book will be of great interest to academics, students, practitioners, literary critics and historians in the fields of postcolonialism, genre studies, global genre fiction, media and popular culture, South Asian literature, Indian literature, detective fiction, science fiction, romance, crime fiction, horror, mythology, graphic novels, comparative literature and South Asian studies. It will also appeal to the informed general reader.

The Mysteries of the Cities

Author : Stephen Knight
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786488445

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The Mysteries of the Cities by Stephen Knight Pdf

A popular crime genre in the nineteenth century, urban mysteries have largely been ignored ever since. This historical and critical text examines the origins of the innovative genre, which grappled with the rise of enormous, anonymous cities, beginning in France in 1842, then spreading rapidly across the continent and to America and Australia. Writers covered include Eugene Sue, George Reynolds, Paul Feval, George Lippard, "Ned Buntline" and Donald Cameron.

G.W.M. Reynolds Reimagined

Author : Jennifer Conary,Mary L. Shannon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000821604

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G.W.M. Reynolds Reimagined by Jennifer Conary,Mary L. Shannon Pdf

This essay collection proposes that G.W.M. Reynolds’s contribution to Victorian print culture reveals the interrelations between authorship, genre, and radicalism in popular print culture of the nineteenth century. As a best-selling author of popular fiction marketed to the lower classes, and a passionate champion of radical politics and "the industrious classes," Reynolds and his work demonstrate the relevance of Victorian Studies to topics of pressing contemporary concern including populism, working-class fiction, the concept of ‘originality’, and the collective scholarly endeavour to ‘widen’ and ‘undiscipline’ Victorian Studies. Bringing together well-known and newly-emerging scholars from across different disciplinary perspectives, the volume explores the importance of Reynolds Studies to scholarship on the nineteenth-century. This book will appeal to students and scholars of the nineteenth-century press, popular culture, and of authorship, as well as to Victorian Studies scholars interested in the translation of Victorian texts into new and indigenous markets.

The Cambridge Companion to Popular Fiction

Author : David Glover,Scott McCracken
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521513371

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The Cambridge Companion to Popular Fiction by David Glover,Scott McCracken Pdf

An overview of popular literature from the early nineteenth century to the present day from a historical and comparative perspective.

Dickens and the Popular Radical Imagination

Author : Sally Ledger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521845779

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Dickens and the Popular Radical Imagination by Sally Ledger Pdf

Sally Ledger offers substantial readings of the influences of radical writers on works from Pickwick to Little Dorrit.

The Penny Politics of Victorian Popular Fiction

Author : Rob Breton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1526174537

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The Penny Politics of Victorian Popular Fiction by Rob Breton Pdf

Penny politics explores how and why Victorian popular literature from the 1830s and 1840s appealed to politicised, intermittently radicalised working-class audiences by supplementing its violent, counter-cultural entertainments with openly political content.

Nineteenth Century Popular Fiction, Medicine and Anatomy

Author : Anna Gasperini
Publisher : Springer
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030109165

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Nineteenth Century Popular Fiction, Medicine and Anatomy by Anna Gasperini Pdf

This book investigates the relationship between the fascinating and misunderstood penny blood, early Victorian popular fiction for the working class, and Victorian anatomy. In 1832, the controversial Anatomy Act sanctioned the use of the body of the pauper for teaching dissection to medical students, deeply affecting the Victorian poor. The ensuing decade, such famous penny bloods as Manuscripts from the Diary of a Physician, Varney the Vampyre, Sweeney Todd, and The Mysteries of London addressed issues of medical ethics, social power, and bodily agency. Challenging traditional views of penny bloods as a lowlier, un-readable genre, this book rereads these four narratives in the light of the 1832 Anatomy Act, putting them in dialogue with different popular artistic forms and literary genres, as well as with the spaces of death and dissection in Victorian London, exploring their role as channels for circulating discourses about anatomy and ethics among the Victorian poor.

Victorian England's Bestselling Author

Author : Stephen Basdeo,Mya Driver
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781399015752

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Victorian England's Bestselling Author by Stephen Basdeo,Mya Driver Pdf

George W.M. Reynolds (1814–79) was one of the biggest-selling novelists of the Victorian era. He was the author of over 58 novels and short stories and his “penny blood” The Mysteries of London, serialised in weekly numbers between 1844 and 1848, sold over a million copies. A controversial figure in his lifetime, Reynolds’s Mysteries, and its follow-up The Mysteries of the Court of London (1849–56), contained tales of crime, vice, and highly sexualised scenes. For this reason Charles Dickens remarked that Reynolds’s name was one “with which no lady’s, and no gentleman’s, should be associated.” Yet Reynolds was much more than just a novelist; he was lauded by the working classes as their champion and campaigned for universal suffrage. To further the working classes’ cause, he established two newspapers: Reynolds’s Political Instructor and Reynolds’s Weekly Newspaper. The latter newspaper, as Karl Marx recognized, became the principal organ of radical and labour politics. This book provides a biography of Reynolds and reproduces his editorials from Reynolds’s Political Instructor as well as excerpts from his fiction.

A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction

Author : Robert Mighall
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0199262187

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A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction by Robert Mighall Pdf

This is the first major full-length study of Victorian Gothic fiction. Combining original readings of familiar texts with a rich store of historical sources, A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction is an historicist survey of nineteenth-century Gothic writing--from Dickens to Stoker, Wilkie Collins to Conan Doyle, through European travelogues, sexological textbooks, ecclesiastic histories and pamphlets on the perils of self-abuse. Critics have thus far tended to concentrate on specific angles of Gothic writing (gender or race), or the belief that the Gothic 'returned' at the so-called fin de siècle. Robert Mighall, by contrast, demonstrates how the Gothic mode was active throughout the Victorian period, and provides historical explanations for its development from late eighteenth century, through the 'Urban Gothic' fictions of the mid-Victorian period, the 'Suburban Gothic' of the Sensation vogue, through to the somatic horrors of Stevenson, Machen, Stoker, and Doyle at the century's close. Mighall challenges the psychological approach to Gothic fiction which currently prevails, demonstrating the importance of geographical, historical, and discursive factors that have been largely neglected by critics, and employing a variety of original sources to demonstrate the contexts of Gothic fiction and explain its development in the Victorian period.

Dickens, Reynolds, and Mayhew on Wellington Street

Author : Mary L. Shannon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317151142

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Dickens, Reynolds, and Mayhew on Wellington Street by Mary L. Shannon Pdf

A glance over the back pages of mid-nineteenth-century newspapers and periodicals published in London reveals that Wellington Street stands out among imprint addresses. Between 1843 and 1853, Household Words, Reynolds’s Weekly Newspaper, the Examiner, Punch, the Athenaeum, the Spectator, the Morning Post, and the serial edition of London Labour and the London Poor, to name a few, were all published from this short street off the Strand. Mary L. Shannon identifies, for the first time, the close proximity of the offices of Charles Dickens, G.W.M. Reynolds, and Henry Mayhew, examining the ramifications for the individual authors and for nineteenth-century publishing. What are the implications of Charles Dickens, his arch-competitor the radical publisher G.W.M. Reynolds, and Henry Mayhew being such close neighbours? Given that London was capital of more than Britain alone, what connections does Wellington Street reveal between London print networks and the print culture and networks of the wider empire? How might the editors’ experiences make us rethink the ways in which they and others addressed their anonymous readers as ’friends’, as if they were part of their immediate social network? As Shannon shows, readers in the London of the 1840s and '50s, despite advances in literacy, print technology, and communications, were not simply an ’imagined community’ of individuals who read in silent privacy, but active members of an imagined network that punctured the anonymity of the teeming city and even the empire.