Introduction

Joseph Bristow, Josephine McDonagh

1-20

No laughing matter

chartism and the limits of satire

Mike Sanders

21-35

"Their deadly longing"

paternalism, the past, and perversion in Barnaby rudge

Ben Winyard

37-62

Frederick William Robinson, Charles Dickens, and the literary tradition of "low life"

Anne Schwan

63-84

Remembering radicalism on the midlands turnpike

George Eliot, Felix Holt, and William Cobbett

Ruth Livesey

85-112

The commune in exile

urban insurrection and the production of international space

Scott McCracken

113-136

Divorce and the new woman

Anne Humpherys

137-155

Revolutions in journalism

W.T. Stead, indexing, and "searching"

Laurel Brake

157-185

Towards a perlocutionary poetics?

Isobel Armstrong

187-211