James Malcolm Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family
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James Malcolm Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family

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James Malcolm Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family is the first monograph focusing on Sweeney Todd and Varney the Vampyre's creator James Malcolm Rymer (1814–1884). It argues that Rymer wrote his so-called 'penny bloods' and 'dreadfuls' for and about British urban working families. In the 1840s, the notion of the family acquired unprecedented prominence and radical potential. Raised in an artisanal artistic-literary family, Rymer wrote for and edited family magazines early in that genre's history, deployed Chartist domesticity to liberal ends, and collaborated with cheap publisher Edward Lloyd to define and popularise the domestic romance genre. In 1850s–1860s penny serials published by George W.M. Reynolds, John Dicks, and Lloyd, Rymer showed how families might sustain Empire and advocated for patriarchal family dynamics in response to literary and political change. During the fin-de-siècle, Rymer's penny fiction was demonised as hyper-masculine 'bloods' and 'dreadfuls', a reputation it retains today. Reading Victorian penny fiction's most indicative author's works as a corpus and with attention to their original textual, cultural, and political contexts reveals it as the family-oriented phenomenon it in fact was.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
ISBN
9781040093719
Edition
1
Topic
Literatur
Subtopic
Moderne Literaturkritik

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Endorsement Page
  3. Half Title page
  4. Series Page
  5. Title Page
  6. Copyright Page
  7. Contents
  8. Figures
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Acronyms
  11. Introduction: James Malcolm Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family
  12. 1 The Rymers: A Cockney Artistic-Literary Family, 1806–1842
  13. 2 The Queen’s Magazine: A ‘Spirit of the Age’, 1842
  14. 3 Ada the Betrayed: Chartist Domesticity, 1842–1843
  15. 4 Rymer’s Domestic Romance: Varney and The String of Pearls, 1845–1850
  16. 5 The Sepoys: Family Imperialism in India, 1858
  17. 6 Rymer’s Highwaymen: Outlaws and Paterfamiliae, 1859–1866
  18. Coda: Rymer the Betrayed: ‘Penny Dreadfuls’, Panic, and ‘Boys’ Books’, 1870–1960
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index