Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: The Possibility of the Novel 1
5. Part I. Trading Places: Novelistic Politics and a Political Novel
6. 1. Politics and Interpretive Discourse 21
7. 2. Fiction into Fiction 37
8. 3. The New Generation, the Political Subject, and the Culture of Change 52
9. Part II. Observation, Representation, and The Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain
10. 4. The Novel and the Utilitarian 71
11. 5. Mr. Chadwick Writes the Poor 86
12. 6. Feminine Hygiene: Women in the Sanitary Condition Report 110
13. Part III. Washed in the Blood of the Lamb: Religion, Radical Politics, and the Industrial Novel
14. 7. Religion, the Novel, and Speaking for/of the Other 125
15. 8. Alton Locke and the Religion of Chartism 132
16. 9. Mary Barton and the Community of Suffering 158
17. Epilogue 179
18. Notes 183
19. Bibliography 201
20. Index 215
21. Backmatter 221