Chartist Fiction: Volume Two Contributor(s): Haywood, Ian (Editor) |
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ISBN: 113864465X ISBN-13: 9781138644656 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $52.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - History | Modern - 19th Century |
Series: Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World |
Physical Information: 0.49" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.73 lbs) 232 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: First published in 2001. When the Chartist leader Ernest Jones emerged from prison in 1850, he was determined to capture the public's attention with a controversial and topical novel. The result of his endeavours was the remarkable Woman's Wrongs, a series of five tales exploring women's oppression at every level of society from the working class to the aristocracy. Each story presents a graphic, often harrowing account of the social, economic and emotional victimization of women, and taken together the tales comprise a devastating indictment of Victorian patriarchal attitudes and sexual inequalities. In his substantial Introduction, Ian Haywood places the novel in the context of Jones's career as a Chartist author and editor, and in the wider context of the 'woman question'. Some of the topics covered by the Introduction include: the radical press and popular enlightenment, Jones's rivalry with George W. M. Reynolds, and the needlewoman as radical icon. This title will be of interest to students of history.
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