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Social Identity and Literary Form in the Victorian Novel - Race, Class, Gender and the Uses of Genre (Paperback)
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Social Identity and Literary Form in the Victorian Novel - Race, Class, Gender and the Uses of Genre (Paperback)
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Enormous social changes during the Victorian era inspired some of
the finest novels in the English language. In the final decades of
the century, rigid application of gender rules and class
hierarchies began to relax. Consciousness of the injustice of
class- and gender-based discrimination was growing. Meanwhile, bias
against nonwhite peoples was worsening. The British used scientific
racism to justify their relentless expansion in Africa and Asia.
Viewing Victorian literature through the lens of these social
changes gives the modern reader a fresh way to interpret the novels
and to appreciate their relevance to contemporary issues.
Nineteenth-century novelists deployed realism, satire, and the
bildungsroman to resist or support leading ideologies of their
time, including the separate spheres doctrine and British
supremacism. Each chapter is an elaboration of the author's
university lectures about Victorian classics. The tone is scholarly
yet conversational, directed to the undergraduate student as well
as the general reader or Victoriaphile. The text presents concepts
in interdisciplinary social studies, discusses the uses of genre
for rhetorical and social purposes, and exposes paradoxes of the
era. The coherent style, abundant examples, discussion questions,
and literary glossary make this book a valuable supplement for
readers of the Victorian novel.
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