Dickens and the Popular Radical Imagination (Paperback)

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Note on editions and abbreviations used; Introduction: Dickens and the popular radical imagination; 1. Popular radical culture in Regency England: Peterloo and The Queen Caroline Affair; 2. Dickens and nineteenth-century show trials; 3. Dickens, popular culture and popular politics in the 1830s: Oliver Twist; 4. Christmas is cancelled: Dickens and Douglas Jerrold writing the 1840s; 5. Popular and political writing in the radical press: from Douglas Jerrold to Ernest Jones, Chartist; 6. Household Words, politics and the mass market in the 1850s; 7. Flunkeyism and toadyism in the age of machinery: from Bleak House to Little Dorrit; Notes; Bibliography; Index.