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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.
With cheaper publishing costs and the explosion of periodical
publishing, the influence of New World travel narratives was
greater during the nineteenth century than ever before, as they
offered an understanding not only of America through British eyes,
but also a lens though which nineteenth-century Britain could view
itself. Despite the differences in purpose and method, the writers
and artists discussed in Nineteenth-Century British Travelers in
the New World-from Fanny Wright arriving in America in 1818 to the
return of Henry James in 1904, and including Charles Dickens,
Frances Trollope, Isabella Bird, Fanny Kemble, Harriet Martineau,
and Robert Louis Stevenson among others, as well as artists such as
Eyre Crowe-all contributed to the continued building of America as
a construct for audiences at home. These travelers' stories and
images thus presented an idea of America over which Britons could
crow about their own supposed sophistication, and a democratic
model through which to posit their own future, all of which
suggests the importance of transatlantic travel writing and the
'idea of America' to nineteenth-century Britain.
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.
With cheaper publishing costs and the explosion of periodical
publishing, the influence of New World travel narratives was
greater during the nineteenth century than ever before, as they
offered an understanding not only of America through British eyes,
but also a lens though which nineteenth-century Britain could view
itself. Despite the differences in purpose and method, the writers
and artists discussed in Nineteenth-Century British Travelers in
the New World-from Fanny Wright arriving in America in 1818 to the
return of Henry James in 1904, and including Charles Dickens,
Frances Trollope, Isabella Bird, Fanny Kemble, Harriet Martineau,
and Robert Louis Stevenson among others, as well as artists such as
Eyre Crowe-all contributed to the continued building of America as
a construct for audiences at home. These travelers' stories and
images thus presented an idea of America over which Britons could
crow about their own supposed sophistication, and a democratic
model through which to posit their own future, all of which
suggests the importance of transatlantic travel writing and the
'idea of America' to nineteenth-century Britain.
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.
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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