What We Have to Do with Is Now: Time and the Subject of Chartist Agitation

Kate Brown is an independent scholar based in New York. She has published on Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Christina Rossetti, and, most recently, Richard Pryor. She is currently completing a book on the Victorian novel as a mode of mourning. The current essay is part of a longer project exploring apprehensions of futurity in Victorian literature.