Class in Turn-Of-The-Century Novels of Gissing, James, Hardy and Wells

ISBN-13: 9781138619081 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 170 str.

Christine Devine

Opis

This book argues that, due to political and ideological shifts in the last decades of the nineteenth century-a time when the class system in England was in a state of flux-a new depiction of social class was possible in the English novel.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; 'We are the working classes': the London poor in Gissing's The Nether World; 'Is this democracy to prove fatal to England?': international terrorism, The Times, and James's The Princess Casamassima; 'A cloud of moral hobgoblins': gender, morality and class in Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles; 'The splintering frame': Wells's Tono-Bungay and Edwardian class; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Christine DeVine