The review of english studies prize essay: Temporizing Dickens

Review of English Studies

Volumn 52, Issue 206, 2001, Pages 171-191

  Bevis, Matthew ^a  

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1. Parliamentary Papers, 17 (1878), 20 (Question 190)
2. For an account of the forms that parliamentary reports could take, see H. C. G. Matthew, 'Rhetoric and Politics in Britain 1860-1950', in P. J. Waller (ed.), Politics and Social Change in Modern Britain: Essays Presented to A. F. Thompson (Sussex, 1987), 34-58
3. For a discussion of the bias against verbatim reporting in this period, see J. M. Robson, What Did He Say? Editing Nineteenth-Century Speeches from Hansard and the Newspapers (Lethbridge, 1988)
4. The Times, 30 July 1833, p. 2a
5. For an account of the changing relations of the press and parliament during this period, see A. Aspinall, Politics and the Press 1780-1850 (Brighton, 1973)
6. For an account of the revisions see W. Carlton, 'Portraits in "A Parliamentary Sketch"', The Dickensian, 50 (1954), 100-9
7. Journalism, i. 155
8. The Fourth Estate: Contributions Towards a History of Newspapers, and of the Liberty of the Press, 2 vols. (London, 1850), ii. 269
9. OED, senses 2 and 2a. First citation 1823
10. Hansard, vi. 1307-12 (12 Sept. 1831)
11. 'On the Difference between Writing and Speaking', London Magazine, 2 (July 1820), 22-33: 25-31
12. Politics in the Age of Peel: A Study in the Technique of Parliamentary Representation 1830-1850 (Sussex, 1977), 8
13. The Works of Jeremy Bentham, ed. J. Bowring, 11 vols. (Edinburgh, 1843), i. 193
14. and Peel's reply, Hansard, ii. 1353 (3 Mar. 1831)
15. For further discussions of the reform debates, see M. Brock, The Great Reform Act (London, 1973)
16. and J. Cannon, Parliamentary Reform 1640-1832 (Aldershot, 1994), 204-63
17. The Speeches of Charles Dickens: A Complete Edition, ed. K. J. Fielding (Brighton, 1988), 288
18. Hansard, ii. 1087 (1 Mar. 1831)
19. Morning Chronicle, 11 Nov. 1835
20. See R. Stewart, Henry Brougham 1778-1868: His Public Career (London, 1986), 230-84
21. Hansard, viii. 275 (7 Oct. 1831)
22. Dickens, although averse to the hesitancy of many politicians, was also a political gradualist in many respects, especially in regard to the franchise. For an account of the limits to the author's liberalism, see P. Collins, 'Dickens the Citizen', in Politics in Literature in the Nineteenth Century (Lille, 1974), 61-82
23. Morning Post, 11 May 1836
24. The Dickens World (London, 1941), 176
25. Dickens and the 1830s (Cambridge, 1990), 73
26. For a brief discussion of how newspaper garrulity is a feature of Dickens's narrative technique, see S. Gill, 'Pickwick Papers and the "Chroniclers by the Line"', Modern Language Review, 63 (1968), 33-6
27. The debate between Brougham and Canning was reported in The Times, and reprinted in the Annual Register (1823), 79
28. 'Mr. Brougham and Mr. Canning', The Times, 18 Apr. 1823, p. 2e
29. G. I. T. Machin, The Catholic Question in English Politics 1820 to 1830 (Oxford, 1964), 40-1
30. Letters, i. 161
31. Morning Chronicle, 1 Dec. 1834
32. repr. in Journalism, ii. 27
33. Hansard, xxxviii. 1458 (14 June 1837)
34. National Magazine and Monthly Critic, 1 (Dec. 1837), 445-9
35. repr. in Versatile Victorian: Selected Writings of George Henry Lewes, ed. R. Ashton (London, 1992), 60
36. The Presence of the Present: Topics of the Day in the Victorian Novel (Columbus, Ohio, 1991), 53, 63
37. As H. J. Hanham notes: 'If anything, corruption was on the increase after 1832 and it was probably more widespread in 1880, eight years after the passage of the Ballot Act, than at any-other time': The Nineteenth Century Constitution 1815-1914 (Cambridge, 1969), 257
38. Pickwick Papers, ed. Patten, 43