Class in turn-of-the-century novels of Gissing, James, Hardy, and Wells
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Class in turn-of-the-century novels of Gissing, James, Hardy, and Wells
(Nineteenth century series)
Ashgate, c2005
- : hbk
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-152) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This book argues that, due to political and ideological shifts in the last decades of the nineteenth century - a time when the class system in England was in a state of flux - 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. By disrupting traditional novelistic conventions, these writers reveal the ideology of the historical moment in which those conventions obtained, thereby questioning the 'naturalness' of class assumed by earlier, middle-class Victorian writers. The book contextualizes novels by these writers within their historical moment with reference to relevant maps, journalism, artwork or photography, and specific historical events. It illuminates the relationship between fiction and history in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century fiction, and especially the relationship between changing depictions of class and the development of realism.
Examining the nineteenth-century English novel through the lens of social class allows the twenty-first century critic and student not only to understand the issues at stake in much Victorian fiction, but also to recognize powerful present-day vestiges of this social class system.
目次
- Introduction
- 'We are the working classes': the London poor in Gissing's The Nether World
- 'Is this democracy to prove fatal to England?': international terrorism, The Times, and James's The Princess Casamassima
- 'A cloud of moral hobgoblins': gender, morality and class in Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- 'The splintering frame': Wells's Tono-Bungay and Edwardian class
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.
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