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.
| ISBN: | 9781138649927 |
| Publication date: | 19th July 2016 |
| Author: | P J Keating |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 334 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Library Editions: The Nineteenth-Century Novel |
| Genres: |
Social and cultural history Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Social classes Social theory European history Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers |