Dickens to Hardy 1837-1884: The Novel, the Past and Cultural Memory in the Nineteenth Century
This authoritative survey examines how the Victorian middle-classes perceived themselves, through analyses of the literature of the period. Asking how the middle classes distinguished themselves from their forbears, Julian Wolfreys reads in detail major novels by:- Charles Dickens- Elizabeth Gaskell- Wilkie Collins- George Eliot - Thomas Hardy.Wolfreys explores the novelists' constructions of modernity, national identity and their understanding of 'becoming historical' in distinction from that of previous generations. He offers illuminating close readings of texts and examines narratives set in a recent past in order to investigate the role…
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- ISBN: 978-0-333-69622-4
- EAN: 9780333696224
- Produktnummer: 2855344
- Verlag: Red Globe Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 293 S.
- Masse: H21.8 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.2 cm 490 g
- Auflage: 2007
- Gewicht: 490
Über den Autor
JULIAN WOLFREYS is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Drama at Loughborough University, UK. He was previously Professor in Literature at the University of Florida, USA.
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