The Victorian social-problem novel : the market, the individual and communal life
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The Victorian social-problem novel : the market, the individual and communal life
Macmillan, 1996
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: ISBN 9780333628430
Description
This text describes various accounts of the Victorian social-problem novel, examining their strengths and limitations in the light of the historiographical assumptions which underlie them. An alternative historical account is offered, which focuses on the novels' intellectual milieu - specifically on mid-Victorian concepts of 'the social' and of what was understood by the term 'social problem'. In detailed readings of individual works, the book argues that an appreciation of these concepts permits new ways of understanding the contradictions identified in these works together with their apparently 'conservative' politics.
Table of Contents
Preface - Acknowledgements - PART 1: LITERATURE, HISTORY, VALUE - Evaluating the Social-Problem Novel - The Social-Problem Novel and Literary History - PART 2: THE SOCIAL-PROBLEM NOVEL - Society, the Social and the Individual - Social Problems and Resolutions - Conclusion: Social Cohesion versus Social Atomism - Bibliography - Index
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: pbk ISBN 9780333628447
Description
This book describes various accounts of the Victorian social-problem novel, examining their strengths and limitations in the light of the historiographical assumptions which underlie them. An alternative historical account is offered, which focuses on the novels' intellectual milieu - specifically on mid-Victorian concepts of 'the social' and of what was understood by the term 'social problem'. In detailed readings of individual works, the book argues that an appreciation of these concepts permits new ways of understanding the contradictions identified in these works together with their apparently 'conservative' politics.
Table of Contents
Preface .- Acknowledgements .- PART 1: LITERATURE, HISTORY, VALUE .- Evaluating the Social-Problem .- Novel .- The Social-Problem Novel and Literary History .- PART 2: THE SOCIAL-PROBLEM NOVEL .- Society, .- the Social and the Individual .- Social Problems and Resolutions .- Conclusion: Social Cohesion versus .- Social Atomism .- Bibliography.- Index.
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