An abridged reprint, this work is the equivalent of a weekly Victorian soap opera. Aimed at the newly literate lower-class city readership of the time, this illustrates the author's work in its historical and literary context with its exploration of a new form of popular fiction.
- ISBN10 1853311111
- ISBN13 9781853311116
- Publish Date 1 January 1996
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 6 June 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Imprint Keele University Press
- Edition Abridged edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 388
- Language English