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Imagining inclusive society in nineteenth-century novels : the code of sincerity in the public sphere

Pam Morris
"Using nineteenth-century novels and other Victorian literature, Pam Morris traces a dramatic transformation of British public consciousness that occurred during the brief period between the Reform Acts of 1832 and 1867. Naturalized acceptance of social hierarchy gave way to general imagining of a modern mass culture. Central to this collective revisioning of social relationships was the pressure to restyle political leadership in terms of popular legitimacy, to develop a more inclusive mode of discourse within an increasingly heterogeneous public sphere, and to find new ways of inscribing social distinctions and exclusions."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2004
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2004
Criticism, interpretation, etc
x, 261 pages ; 24 cm
9780801879111, 0801879116
52937322
Imagining inclusive society, 1846-1867: theoretical perspectives
Producing inclusive society, 1846-67: empirical histories
Shirley: charisma or sincerity?
History of Henry Esmond Esq: the hero as sincere man
Bleak House: interested knowledge and imaginary power
North and South: from public sphere to manipulative publicity
Romola: the politics of disinterestedness
Our mutual friend: visualising distinction