TY  - BOOK
AU  - DeVine, Christine.
AU  - Christine DeVine
TI  - Class in Turn-of-the-Century Novels of Gissing, James, Hardy and Wells
SN  - 9781138675926
U1  - 823.8093552 DEV 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - , New York
PB  - : Routledge
KW  - Social classes in literature
KW  - Literature and society - England - 19th century
KW  - English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
N2  - First published in 2005, this book argues that, due to political and ideological shifts in the last decades of the nineteenth century a new depiction of social class was possible in the English novel. Late-century writers such as Gissing, James, Hardy and Wells question the middle-class Victorian views of class that had dominated the novel for decades through the disruption of traditional novelistic conventions. With reference to relevant maps, journalism, artwork, photography and specific historical events, this book contextualizes novels by these writers within their historical moment. In doing so, it illuminates the relationship between fiction and history in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth century fiction.
This book will be of interest to those studying late nineteenth-century literature and history
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