Table of Contents:
  • Dickens, Thackeray, and "the language of radicalism"
  • The aesthetics and politics of caricature : Bleak house, Little Dorrit, and Vanity fair in relation to "radical expression"
  • Re-visioning the city : the making of an urban aesthetic from Hogarth to the stereoscope
  • Novelizing the city : Bleak house, Vanity fair, and the hybridizing challenge
  • Radical culture, the city, and the problem of selfhood : Great expectations and Pendennis
  • Working with fragments : Our mutual friend as a reflection on the popular aesthetic.