G.W.M. Reynolds Reimagined

<p>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 classes Reynolds and his work demonstrate the relevance of Victorian Studies to topics of pressing contemporary concern including populism working-class fiction the concept of ‘originality’ and the collective scholarly endeavour to ‘widen’ and ‘undiscipline’ Victorian Studies. Bringing together well-known and newly-emerging scholars from across different disciplinary perspectives the volume explores the importance of Reynolds Studies to scholarship on the nineteenth-century. This book will appeal to students and scholars of the nineteenth-century press popular culture and of authorship as well as to Victorian Studies scholars interested in the translation of Victorian texts into new and indigenous markets.</p>