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De-Radicalizing Popular Literature: From William Hone to Pierce Egan

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posted on 2023-07-26, 13:43 authored by John Gardner
This article examines the depoliticization of radical literature towards the kind of popular cross-class literature that Dickens would later produce. Here I examine why Pierce Egan, a man that Louis James identifies as “part of the old order”, would look towards William Hone for advice when Hone was actively hitting out at the church, king and government in a series of wildly popular pamphlets. In this chapter I will examine the oddness of Egan’s appeal to Hone and how Egan depoliticizes Hone’s creative method and style to access the kind of cross-class readership that Dickens and Thackeray would later reach. Furthermore I find that Egan's influence lasted into the C.20 with his inclusion in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.

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  • Yes

Page range

177-194

Number of pages

220

Series

Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Place of publication

New York, NY

Title of book

The Regency Revisited

ISBN

978-1-137-50449-4

Editors

Tim Fulford, Michael E. Sinatra

Language

  • other

Legacy posted date

2016-01-08

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

ARCHIVED Faculty of Arts, Law & Social Sciences (until September 2018)

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