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The Merrie England Triptych: Robert Blatchford, Edward Fay and the Didactic Use of Clarion fiction

Author(s) -

Deborah Mutch

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

victorian periodicals review

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.204

H-Index - 10

eISSN - 1712-526X

pISSN - 0709-4698

DOI - 10.1353/vpr.2005.0009

Subject(s) - journalism , clarion , champion , newspaper , apotheosis , history , government (linguistics) , sociology , media studies , art history , literature , law , art , political science , philosophy , archaeology , psychology , linguistics , cognitive psychology

This article discusses the importance of the serialised fiction published at the same time as Robert Blatchford's socialist polemic 'Merrie England'. It argues that the surrounding fiction expanded and elaborated the political arguments and ideas raised in Blatchford's vision, and that publication outside of the Clarion necessitated additional text to fill the gaps previously filled by the serial fiction

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