This e-book takes a clean examine the innovative interventions of writers within the 19th century. From Cobbett to Dickens and George Eliot, and together with a bunch of lesser recognized figures – renowned novelists, poets, reporters, political activists – writers shared a dedication to exploring the potential for literature as a medium during which to visualize new and higher worlds. The essays during this quantity ask how we must always comprehend those interventions and what are their legacies within the 20th and 21st centuries? encouraged by way of the paintings of the unconventional literary student, the past due Sally Ledger, this quantity offers a remark at the political traditions that underpin the literature of this advanced interval, and examines the interpretive tools which are had to comprehend them. This well timed publication contributes to our appreciation of the unconventional traditions that underpin our literary previous.
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