Penny politics offers a new way to read early Victorian popular fiction such as Jack Sheppard, Sweeney Todd, and The Mysteries of London. It locates forms of radical discourse in the popular literature that emerged simultaneously with Brittan's longest and most significant people's movement. It listens for echoes of Chartist fiction in popular fiction. The book rethinks the relationship between the popular and political, understanding that radical politics had popular appeal and that the lines separating a genuine radicalism from commercial success are complicated and never absolute. With archival work into Newgate calendars and Chartist periodicals, as well as media history and culture, it brings together histories of the popular and political so as to rewrite the radical canon.
Introduction - nationalism and the state. Part 1 The social and intellectual bases of nationalism; the social bases of nationalist politics; the sources and forms of nationalist ideology; prelude to nationalism - religious and national oppositions in early modern Europe; unification nationalism in 19th-century Europe; separatist nationalism in 19th-century Europe; separatist nationalism in the Arab world; approaches to anti-colonial nationalism; anti-colonial nationalism - two case studies; sub-nationalism in colonial states; the colonial state and nationalism; reform nationalism outside Europe. Part 2 The varieties in nationalism: separatist nationalism in the new nation-states; nation-building and nationalism in the new states; unification nationalism and the new nation-states; reform nationalism in the old nation-states; separatist nationalism in the developed nation-states; nationalism in contemporary east-central Europe.
