Robert Surtees & Early Victorian Society

ISBN-13: 9780198204299 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 416 str.

Norman Gash

Opis

A contribution both to Surtees studies and to Victorian social history, this is the first study to put Surtees' opinions and sentiments in an historical rather than a literary context. It uses historical evidence to provide a background for Surtees' novels, and uses his writings to enlarge the purely historical evidence. While the traditional concentration of social historians has been on urban life, industrialization, and social reform, Surtees' more conservative world of the countryside, small provincial towns, and the seedier side of London would have been familiar to the majority of his countrymen.

Recenzje

Gash makes no concession to modern fashions in social history. No statistical table impedes the text, and no jargon mars the lucidity of the prose ... this book provides a splendid compendium of early Victorian attitudes, behaviour patterns and foibles, culled from both within and beyond the works of Surtees.