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The Literature of Change

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The Literature of Change book

Studies in the Nineteenth Century Provincial Novel

The Literature of Change

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The Literature of Change book

Studies in the Nineteenth Century Provincial Novel
ByJohn Lucas
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1980
eBook Published 22 July 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315560120
Pages 234 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315560120
SubjectsHumanities, Language & Literature, Social Sciences
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Lucas, J. (1980). The Literature of Change. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315560120

First published in 1977, this book studies three important nineteenth-century novelists: Mrs Gaskell, William Hale White and Thomas Hardy. They are all provincial novelists who wrote about social change and the attendant problems and pressures this brought with it. Unlike previous critics, who have tended to concentrate on her ‘social-problem’ novels, here the author treats Gaskell’s Sylvia’s Lovers and Cousin Phillis as central texts. However a chapter also examines Gaskell and Engels perception of social change in Manchester. This book also seeks to correct Hale White’s neglect, anointing Revolution in Tanner’s Lane and Clara Hopgood major works. The survey of women in Hardy’s novels represents an illuminating new angle and leads on to a discussion of love and marriage in later Victorian fiction.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|33 pages

Mrs Gaskell and the Nature of Social Change

chapter 2|23 pages

Engels, Mrs Gaskell and Manchester

chapter 3|62 pages

William Hale White and the Problems of Deliverance

chapter 4|73 pages

Hardy's Women

chapter 5|16 pages

A Note on the Treatment of Love and Marriage in Later Victorian Fiction

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