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This book describes various accounts of the Victorian social-problem novel, examining their strengths and limitations in the light of the historiographical assumptions which underlie them. An alternative historical account is offered, which focuses on the novels' intellectual milieu - specifically on mid-Victorian concepts of 'the social' and of what was understood by the term 'social problem'. In detailed readings of individual works, the book argues that an appreciation of these concepts permits new ways of understanding the contradictions identified in these works together with their apparently 'conservative' politics.
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Literature, History, Value
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The Social-Problem Novel
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Back Matter
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Victorian Social-Problem Novel
Book Subtitle: The Market, the Individual and Communal Life
Authors: Josephine M. Guy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24904-6
Publisher: Red Globe Press London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Josephine M. Guy 1996
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 256
Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature