{"id":15946,"date":"2023-02-08T18:03:40","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T18:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/?p=15946"},"modified":"2023-02-08T18:03:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T18:03:42","slug":"leslee-thorne-murphy-bazaar-literature-charity-advocacy-and-parody-in-victorian-social-reform-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/2023\/02\/08\/leslee-thorne-murphy-bazaar-literature-charity-advocacy-and-parody-in-victorian-social-reform-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Leslee Thorne-Murphy, Bazaar Literature: Charity, Advocacy, and Parody in Victorian Social Reform Fiction<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Bazaar Literature<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charity, Advocacy, and Parody in Victorian Social Reform Fiction<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leslee Thorne-Murphy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bazaar Literature<\/em>\u00a0reorients our understanding of Victorian social reform fiction by reading it in light of the copious amount of literature generated for charity bazaars. Bazaars were ubiquitous during the nineteenth century, part of the vibrant and massive private sector response to a rapidly industrializing society. Typically organized and run by women, charity bazaars were often called \u201cfancy fairs\u201d since they specialized in ladies\u2019 hand-crafted \u201cfancy\u201d work. Indeed, they were a key method women used to intervene in political, social, and cultural affairs. Yet their conventional purpose\u2014to raise money for charity\u2014has led to their being widely overlooked and misunderstood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bazaar Literature<\/em>\u00a0remedies these misconceptions by demonstrating how the literature written in conjunction with bazaars shaped the social, political, and literary movements of its time. This study draws upon a wide variety of texts printed to be sold at bazaars, including literature by Robert Louis Stevenson, Harriet Martineau, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, alongside fictional depictions of fancy fairs by Charlotte Yonge, George Eliot, Frances Trollope, and Anthony Trollope. The book revises our understanding of the larger literary market in social reform fiction, revealing a parodic, self-critical strain that is paradoxically braided with strident political activism and its realist sensibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leslee Thorne-Murphy<\/strong> is an associate professor of English at Brigham Young University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bazaar Literature Charity, Advocacy, and Parody in Victorian Social Reform Fiction Leslee Thorne-Murphy Bazaar Literature\u00a0reorients our understanding of Victorian social reform fiction by reading it in light of the copious amount of literature generated for charity bazaars. Bazaars were ubiquitous during the nineteenth century, part of the vibrant and massive private sector response to a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5272,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[497],"tags":[2266,2436,2437,1581,1427],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15948,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15946\/revisions\/15948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}