1st Edition

The Victorian Novelist Social Problems and Change

Edited By Kate Flint Copyright 1987
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1987. Many Victorian novels that considered social problems made extensive use of contemporary source material for their descriptions. This book aims to provide a greater acquaintance with this non-literary material — illustrating and exemplifying issues that the authors treated imaginatively. The material is divided into parts dealing with: the industrial north of England,... Read more

Introduction; Part One: The Industrial North and Midlands Part Two: London Part Three: The Agricultural Poor; Secondary Works; Literary Studies Social and Economic History; Index

Biography

Kate Flint