Dickens and the Popular Radical Imagination.(Brief article)(Book review) Contemporary Review | March 22, 2008 | COPYRIGHT 2008 Contemporary Review Company Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Dickens and the Popular Radical Imagination. Sally Ledger. Cambridge University Press. [pounds sterling]50.00 (US$90.00). xiii + 295 pages. ISBN 978-0-521-84577-9. This book sets out to reveal the debts Dickens owed to the populist radical tradition of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, to the political satire of Thomas Spence, Wilkes, William Hone, Cobbett and Cruikshank. The author examines this radical heritage by first looking at Peterloo and the Queen Caroline affair and then at the writings not just of Dickens but of Jerrold, Hone and various Chartist ...

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