Tag: Politics

G. W. M. Reynolds and Personal Empowerment: The Moral Struggle between Servitude and Dignity

March 25, 2025

“We forge the chains we wear in life”: this simple yet powerful statement, contained in Mary Price (1851-1852) and Joseph Wilmot (1853-1855), served as a personal guide into the fascinating fiction of G. W. M. Reynolds… I came across Reynolds’s narratives by researching the novels written by Dickens on a previous project and I must … More G. W. M. Reynolds and Personal Empowerment: The Moral Struggle between Servitude and Dignity

Writing on Reynolds

March 16, 2022

By: Rob Breton Recently I published a book called The Penny Politics of Victorian Popular Fiction with Manchester University Press. It’s on the turn towards the politicization of fiction in the 1840s and begins by looking at Newgate Calendars and fiction (mostly Jack Sheppard), productions coming out of Edward Lloyd’s operations (such as Sweeney Todd), … More Writing on Reynolds