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Class in Turn-of-the-Century Novels of Gissing, James, Hardy and Wells (Paperback)
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Class in Turn-of-the-Century Novels of Gissing, James, Hardy and Wells (Paperback)
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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.
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