1st Edition
Class in Turn-of-the-Century Novels of Gissing, James, Hardy and Wells
By Christine DeVine
Copyright 2005
172 Pages
by
Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 2005, this book argues that, due to political and ideological shifts in the last decades of the nineteenth century 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 through the disruption of traditional... Read more
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. "We are the working classes": The London Poor in Gissing’s The Nether World 2. "Is this democracy to prove fatal to England?": International Terrorism, the Times and James’s The Princess Casamassima 3. "A cloud of moral hobgoblins": Gender, Morality and Class in Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles 4. "The splintering frame": Wells’s Tono-Bungay and Edwardian Class; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Biography
Christine DeVine
