... of the cognitive standards of liberal citizenship, statistical sciences around the time of the 1867 Reform Act reversed the usual priority given to the individual over the collective, redefining the self as a compilation of demographic and social information. When Anthony Trollope's 1867 Phineas Finn performs...

... working-class men were eventually given the vote by the 1867 Reform Act, the debate that forms the deep background for all of Daly’s readings.) The Colleen Bawn uses melodrama to investigate a cross-class liaison; the “rescue” of the peasant girl by a gentle- man is perhaps a compensatory fantasy...

... enfranchised class of voters. The novel acknowledges that an expanding middle class—including many of the men who are assembled at the riot—had just gained the franchise under the broadened provisions of the Second Reform Act of 1867, when these chapters of the novel were published. Trollope's decision to base...

... organized Reform Acts: Chartism, Social Agency, and the Victorian Novel, 1832–67 studies eleven British novels, written during the years surrounding the first two Reform Acts (1832 and 1867) of the nineteenth century, to explore how novels portray “social agency.” Delivered in a straightforward, unfussy...

... as political in a novel way is particularly clear when compared to the electoral interventions proposed by the Reform Bills of 1832, 1867, and 1884, which Rancière would be obliged to call not politics but “police,” that is, a “partitioning of the visible . . . made up of groups tied to specific modes of doing...

... simultaneously acted as his editor, collaborator, and mentor may have been as much to blame. Unequal Partners shows the working relationship culminating in the parry and thrust of The Moonstone (1868) and The Mystery of Edwin Drood, cut short by Dickens's death in 1870. I suspect that many...

... identify. Or so Dickens's satire of reformers would suggest. But while he invariably ridicules the reformers he depicts, Dickens often acts much like a reformer him- self. In his own novels, he, too, circulates representations of suffering among those who cannot see the suffering for themselves...

.... As Chartists well knew, and as Catherine Gallagher has argued in terms of the ‘‘industrial reformation’’ of the novel, these forms of representation are deeply involved in the nineteenth century and regu- larly analogized to one another, perhaps most famously in Eliot’s novel of the first Reform Act...

... It is telling that the most dramatic acts of hunger striking occurred in and against Britain. While in the industrial core hunger was understood as an aberration of the improvements promised by capitalism, elsewhere in the world system, including across the British Empire, hunger was understood as a necessary...

...). Anderson considers that this contradiction was also influenced by debates over working-class men's suitability to receive the franchise prior to the Reform Act of 1867 (81, 91), although the connection between the British working-class voter and the professional soldier, whose social class could vary...

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... forms of capital to circulate through her. As the channel through which Western men collect and reproduce knowledge-both because her recollections provide information about the vampire and because, as stenographer and typist, she records othersJ infor- mation-Mina reforms herself into a means...

... sector substantially innocent of interclass capital transfer (48-49). The Leweses' correspondence with John Blackwood, however, features two capitalist enterprises dealing at a friendly arms' length, weighing risk frankly and prudently, and finally acting to produce an innovative commodity-book...

... in the Work of Thomas Hardy . Oxford: Clarendon, 1986 . Cox , Robert George . Thomas Hardy, the Critical Heritage . London: Routledge, 1970 . Gallagher , Catherine . The Industrial Reformation of English Fiction: Social Discourse and Narrative Form, 1832–1867 . Chicago: U of Chicago P...

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... . The Industrial Reformation of English Fiction: Social Discourse and Narrative Form, 1832–1867 . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 1985 . Gleadle Kathryn and Richardson Sarah . “ Introduction: The Petticoat in Politics: Women and Authority .” Women in British Politics, 1760–1860: The Power...

... . Fineman , Joel . “The History of the Anecdote: Fiction and Fiction.” The New Historicism . Ed. H. Aram Veeser. London: Routledge, 1989 . 49 –76. Gallagher , Catherine . Nobody’s Story: The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace, 1670–1820 . Berkeley and Los Angeles: U...

... and political regeneration. Condition of England novels were the first group of literary texts to call on readers to participate at the national level in social reform, and generic dissonance played a key role in that literary and political act of inclusion. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019...

... in antiquated social institutions. It is also the decade of the Second Reform Bill (1867), in which even if most people still were not enfranchised, they were at least presented to the imagination as inevitably one day being so. Victorian political theory thus found itself having to cope conceptually...

... the 1832 Reform Act (Lambert and Badsey 12). Russell was himself a Tory, and even while he describes war victims who are mostly working-class men, he also rel- ishes describing the heartwarming spectacle of aristocratic men sharing miser- able conditions with their lower-class compatriots—as when...