Attitudes to class in the English novel - From Walter Scott to David Storey - EAGLETON Mary, PIERCE David
KORTE INHOUD
What is the role of social class in English fiction? And to what extent have attitudes towards class distinctions changed over the last two hundred years?
LT: Let's not forget that England didn't have something like the French Revolution. So the gentry was not affected by such a bourgeois overtake of power.
Contents:
Improvement & Compromise: The Early-Nineteenth-Century;
The Ungovernable: Novels of the 1840s & 1850s;
Aspects of Class in George Eliot's Fiction;
Oppositional Fiction;
Pressure Points: Forster, Lawrence, Joyce, Woolf;
Them & Us: Recent Working - Class Fiction.
Some of the writers taken from the index: Jane Austen, Charlotte and Emily Bronte, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, E.M. Forster, Thomas Hardy (Tess, Jude the Obscure), James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, George Orwell, H.G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, W.B. Yeats, Zola (Germinal).
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EAGLETON Mary, PIERCE David
Attitudes to class in the English novel - From Walter Scott to David Storey
Paperback, in-8, 159 pp., bibliographical notes, bibliography, index.
What is the role of social class in English fiction? And to what extent have attitudes towards class distinctions changed over the last two hundred years?
LT: Let's not forget that England didn't have something like the French Revolution. So the gentry was not affected by such a bourgeois overtake of power.
Contents:
Improvement & Compromise: The Early-Nineteenth-Century;
The Ungovernable: Novels of the 1840s & 1850s;
Aspects of Class in George Eliot's Fiction;
Oppositional Fiction;
Pressure Points: Forster, Lawrence, Joyce, Woolf;
Them & Us: Recent Working - Class Fiction.
Some of the writers taken from the index: Jane Austen, Charlotte and Emily Bronte, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, E.M. Forster, Thomas Hardy (Tess, Jude the Obscure), James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, George Orwell, H.G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, W.B. Yeats, Zola (Germinal).
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1979
Thames and Hudson
[Auteur: EAGLETON Mary, PIERCE David] [Pagina's: 159] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Thames and Hudson] [Jaar: 1979] [Titel: Attitudes to class in the English novel - From Walter Scott to David Storey]
