Table of Contents
List of contributors
Foreword: Early Reynolds Research: Recollections
Louis James
Editors’ Acknowledgements
INTRODUCTION: Reynolds Reimagined: Locating G.W.M. Reynolds in Victorian Studies
Jennifer Conary and Mary L. Shannon
I: AUTHORSHIP
1. Dickensian Departures: Innovation and Originality in G.W.M. Reynolds’s Pickwick Abroad
Jennifer Conary
2. ‘Lost, as it were, from amidst the assemblage of my literary productions’: Authorial agency from scissors-and-paste to remix in Reynolds’s translations
Manon Burz-Labrande and Marie Léger-St-Jean
3. Two Mid-Nineteenth-Century Popular Radical Novelists: G.W.M. Reynolds and Wilkie Collins
Stephen Knight
4. ‘A Comic Writer of Some Distinction’: Reimagining G.W.M. Reynolds through the Madras Comic Almanac
Mary L. Shannon
II: RADICALISM
5. Reynolds's Newspaper and Victorian Populism, 1850-79
Rohan McWilliam
6. ‘One of the Bastards of the Mountain’: George W. M. Reynolds’s Red Republican and Socialist Ideology
Stephen Basdeo
7. Dining with Reynolds: The Reports of Reynolds’s Annual Festival
Anne Humpherys
8. George W. M. Reynolds and the Republic of Europe
Ian Haywood
III: GENRE
9. Sisterhoods, Doppelgangers, Republicans: Reynolds’s Radical Mysteries
Sara Hackenberg
10. ‘If I be a wretch, it is you who made me so’: the disintegrated narrative of Lydia Hutchinson in The Mysteries of London
Ruth Doherty
11. Reynoldsian Women: Sexualisation and Female Agency
Mollie Clarke
12. Lord of Misrule: Reynolds’s Radical Christmas Fiction
Rebecca Nesvet
IV: BEYOND
13. Translating Reynolds to the Pacific and Widening Victorian Studies
Craig Howes
Bibliography
Index