Silver Fork Novel - Fashionable Fiction in the Age of Reform

Informationen zum Autor Edward Copeland is Emeritus Professor of English at Pomona College, Claremont, California. Klappentext This first modern study of silver-fork novels investigates their role in the alliance of middle class and aristocratic political principles. 'Copeland's reading shows what informed, incisive historicist literary criticism can do.' Times Literary Supplement 'Copeland's literary 'search and rescue' effort is thoroughly impressive ... Well written, informative, and thoroughly engaging, [his] book offers fertile ground for further sustained study of a genre still largely unplumbed.' Review 19 (www.nbol-19.org) Zusammenfassung This first modern full-length study of the silver-fork novel argues that such novels! wildly popular in the early years of the nineteenth century and yet condemned by contemporary critics as dangerously seductive! were in fact political fictions designed to effect an alliance of the middle-classes and the aristocracy. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Cultural contexts; 2. Edgeworth, Burney and Austen; 3. Reform and the silver fork novel; 4. Newspapers and the silver fork novel; 5. The topography of silver fork London; 6. Performing reform, silver fork heroines.

Product details

• Authors: Edward Copeland, Edward (Pomona College Copeland
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.06.2012
• EAN: 9780521513333
• ISBN: 978-0-521-51333-3
• No. of pages: 308
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture; Cambridge Studies in Nineteent
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies