Dickens and Democracy in the Age of Paper: Representing the People

by Carolyn Vellenga Berman

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192845403
• ISBN13: 9780192845405
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"