The Victorian Social-Problem Novel - The Market, the Individual and Communal Life

This book describes various accounts of the Victorian social-problem novel, examining their strengths and limitations in the light of the historiographical assumptions which underlie them. An alternative historical account is offered, which focuses on the novels'' intellectual milieu - specifically on mid-Victorian concepts of ''the social'' and of what was understood by the term ''social problem''. In detailed readings of individual works, the book argues that an appreciation of these concepts permits new ways of understanding the contradictions identified in these works together with their apparently ''conservative'' politics.>

Sommario

Preface
Acknowledgements
PART 1: LITERATURE, HISTORY, VALUE
Evaluating the Social-Problem Novel
The Social-Problem Novel and Literary History
PART 2: THE SOCIAL-PROBLEM NOVEL
Society, the Social and the Individual
Social Problems and Resolutions
Conclusion: Social Cohesion versus
Social Atomism
Bibliography
Index.

Info autore

Josephine M. Guy

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Josephine M Guy, Josephine M. Guy, Guy Josephine M
• Editore: Macmillan
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 18.09.1996
• EAN: 9780333628447
• ISBN: 978-0-333-62844-7
• Pagine: 256
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata