G.W.M. Reynolds Reimagined

By Jennifer Conary (editor), Mary L. Shannon (editor),

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This essay collection proposes that G.W.M. Reynolds's contribution to Victorian print culture reveals the interrelations between authorship, genre, and radicalism in popular print culture of the nineteenth century. As a best-selling author of popular fiction marketed to the lower classes, and a passionate champion of radical politics and "the industrious…

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George W. M. Reynolds was one of the bestselling authors of Victorian England but he has been largely forgotten today. His greatest works included The Mysteries of London and Wagner the Wehr-wolf. He wrote gripping sensational plots that often included social criticism. This book contains several fascinating essays about Reynolds' works and his life and provided me with information I didn't know before, especially in his work running Reynolds' Miscellany. This contemporary of Dickens, Thackeray, and Trollope deserves more recognition for his contributions to literature, and this book is one of the few that has tried to revive his reputation.…

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