The Victorian Novelist: Social Problems and Change: Volume by Kate Flint

By Kate Flint

First released in 1987. Many Victorian novels that thought of social difficulties made large use of up to date resource fabric for his or her descriptions. This booklet goals to supply a better acquaintance with this non-literary fabric — illustrating and exemplifying matters that the authors handled imaginatively. the cloth is split into elements facing: the economic north of britain, London and the rural bad. Extracts from writings that endure at once at the fiction of writers like Dickens and Gaskell are featured, as are executive Blue Books and newspaper experiences and articles. This quantity additionally includes articles through Dickens and others, from his journal, Household Words.

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