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...
A contribution both to Surtees studies and to Victorian social history, this is the first study to put Surtees' opinions and sentiments in an historic...
The author, taking as his theme a J. S. Mill statement that their lot was cast in the 10 years of inevitable reaction, ' analyzes political developments after the Reform Act of 1832 as they affected the monarchy, the House of Lords, the established Church, and the two major political parties.
The author, taking as his theme a J. S. Mill statement that their lot was cast in the 10 years of inevitable reaction, ' analyzes political develop...
