The Working-Classes in Victorian Fiction

Bibliographic Data

ID19923972
AuthorsP J Keating (corresponding author)
Year2016
Pages334
Publication date2016-07-22
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueWorking-Classes in Victorian Fiction (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315625522
OpenAlexW1541323723
Open LibraryOL53971259M
ISBN9781315625522
LanguageEN
Citations received18

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

Art · Australian History and Society · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Literature: history, themes, analysis · 19th century · English fiction · English fiction, history and criticism · Fiction · Fiction, history and criticism · History and criticism · Working class in literature

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