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