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The Victorian Social-Problem Novel

The Market, the Individual and Communal Life

Josephine M Guy author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:18th Sep '96

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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.

ISBN: 9780333628447

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 328g

256 pages