1st Edition
The Literature of Change Studies in the Nineteenth Century Provincial Novel
By John Lucas
Copyright 1980
234 Pages
by
Routledge
234 Pages
by
Routledge
234 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1977, this book studies three important nineteenth-century novelists: Mrs Gaskell, William Hale White and Thomas Hardy. They are all provincial novelists who wrote about social change and the attendant problems and pressures this brought with it. Unlike previous critics, who have tended to concentrate on her ‘social-problem’ novels, here the author treats Gaskell’s Sylvia’s... Read more
Introduction to the Second Edition; Introduction; 1 Mrs Gaskell and the Nature of Social Change 2 Engels, Mrs Gaskell and Manchester 3 William Hale White and the Problems of Deliverance 4 Hardy’s Women 5 A Note on the Treatment of Love and Marriage in Later Victorian Fiction; Notes; Index
Biography
John Lucas
