Class in Turn-of-the-Century Novels of Gissing, James, Hardy and Wells (Routledge Library Editions: The Nineteenth-Century Novel) - Hardcover

DeVine, Christine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138675911 ISBN 13: 9781138675919

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Christine DeVine is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA. Her publications include an edition of George Gissing's Abridgement of Forster's Life of Dickens (2005), and articles on Gissing, Henry James and George Eliot. She is currently working on a book-length project that focuses on the nineteenth-century English view of America through the eyes of Victorian travelers to the United States.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1138675911
• ISBN 13: 9781138675919
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 172