The Working-Classes in Victorian Fiction
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The Working-Classes in Victorian Fiction

  1. 334 pages
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The Working-Classes in Victorian Fiction

About this book

First published in 1971. The book examines the presentation of the urban and industrial working classes in Victorian fiction. It considers the different types of working men and women who appear in fiction, the environments they are shown to inhabit, and the use of phonetics to indicate the sound of working class voices. Evidence is drawn from a wide range of major and minor fiction, and new light is cast on Dickens, Mrs Gaskell, Charles Kingsley, George Gissing, Rudyard Kipling and Arthur Morrison. This book would be of interest to students of literature, sociology and history.

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Yes, you can access The Working-Classes in Victorian Fiction by Peter Keating,P. J. Keating in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & 19th Century History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781138649927
eBook ISBN
9781317232254
Edition
1
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Original Title
  6. Original Copyright
  7. Contents
  8. Dedication
  9. Preface
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. 1 The two traditions, 1820-80
  12. 2 New lines and continuing traditions
  13. 3 George Gissing
  14. 4 walter Besant and the 'discovery' of the East End
  15. 5 French naturalism and English working-class fiction
  16. 6 Rudyard Kipling and cockney archetypes
  17. 7 Arthur Morrison and the tone of violence
  18. 8 The Cockney School
  19. 9 Industrialism, urbanism and class conflict
  20. 10 The phonetic representation of Cockney
  21. Notes
  22. Bibliography
  23. Index