Robert Surtees and early Victorian society
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Robert Surtees and early Victorian society
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1993
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Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Though for well over a century the novels of R.S. Surtees have maintained a steady readership, his books have been comparatively neglected in the literary and social studies of his period. Norman Gash's stimulating book is both a contribution to Surtees studies and to Victorian social history.
It has often been observed that Surtees' fiction furnishes a wealth of material for social historians, and Professor Gash sets out to exploit the opportunities it offers. He places Surtees' novels in their historical context, and uses the novels and other writings to enlarge the historical evidence.
Through the views of an unorthodox and sceptical early Victorian novelist, Norman Gash examines a familiar landscape from an unfamiliar angle, illuminating the conservative world of the countryside, small provincial towns, and the seedier side of London. This is a scholarly and entertaining study by an eminent historian of the nineteenth century.
目次
- Part 1 Surtees's England: the man and his books
- town and country
- squires and peers
- county society
- landowners and farmers. Part 2 Domestic interiors: woman and the pursuit of man
- the mirror of society. Part 3 Manners and morals: manners
- morals
- the limits of prudery. Part 4 The changing years: the decline of elegance
- stage coaches, steam and speed
- a railway society.
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