James Malcolm Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family is the first monograph focusing on Sweeney Todd and Varney the Vampyre's creator James Malcolm Rymer (1814-84) and an essential contribution to Victorian, Gothic, and working-class literary studies.

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Rebecca Nesvet, Professor of English, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, earned her PhD in Nineteenth Century British Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill in 2014.

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James Malcolm Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family is the first monograph focusing on Sweeney Todd and Varney the Vampyre's creator James Malcolm Rymer (1814-84) and an essential contribution to Victorian, Gothic, and working-class literary studies.

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Introduction

Chapter 1: The Rymers: A Cockney Artistic-Literary Family, 1806-1842

Chapter 2: The Queen's Magazine: A Spirit of the Age, 1842

Chapter 3: Ada the Betrayed: Chartist Domesticity, 1842-1843

Chapter 4: Rymer's Domestic Romance: Varney and The String of Pearls, 1845-1850

Chapter 5: The Sepoys: Family Imperialism in India, 1858
Chapter 6: Rymer's Highwaymen: Outlaws and Paterfamiliae, 1859-1866
Coda: Rymer the Betrayed: Penny Dreadfuls', Panic, and "Boys' Books, 1870-1960