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Author DeVine, Christine, author

Title Class in Turn-of-the-Century Novels of Gissing, James, Hardy and Wells
Edition First edition
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource : text file, PDF
Contents Chapter Introduction / Christine Devine -- chapter 1 \ / Christine Devine -- chapter 2 \ / Christine Devine -- chapter 3 \ / Christine Devine -- chapter 4 \ / Christine Devine
Summary "This book argues that, due to political and ideological shifts in the last decades of the nineteenth century-a time when the class system in England was in a state of flux-a new depiction of social class was possible in the English novel. Late-century writers such as Gissing, James, Hardy and Wells question the middle-class Victorian views of class that had dominated the novel for decades. By disrupting traditional novelistic conventions, these writers reveal the ideology of the historical moment in which those conventions obtained, thereby questioning the 'naturalness' of class assumed by earlier, middle-class Victorian writers. The book contextualizes novels by these writers within their historical moment with reference to relevant maps, journalism, artwork or photography, and specific historical events. It illuminates the relationship between fiction and history in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century fiction, and especially the relationship between changing depictions of class and the development of realism. Examining the nineteenth-century English novel through the lens of social class allows the twenty-first century critic and student not only to understand the issues at stake in much Victorian fiction, but also to recognize powerful present-day vestiges of this social class system."--Provided by publisher
Subject Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946 -- Political and social views
Gissing, George, 1857-1903 -- Political and social views
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 -- Political and social views
James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Political and social views
SUBJECT Gissing, George, 1857-1903 fast
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 fast
James, Henry, 1843-1916 fast
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946 fast
Subject English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Social classes in literature.
Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
English fiction
Literature and society
Political and social views
Social classes in literature
Great Britain
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781351161640
1351161644