Friendship's Bonds: Democracy and the Novel in Victorian England

by Richard Dellamora

Book Overview

What is the connection between citizenship and friendship in Victorian fiction? Why do Victorian writers use the portrayal of relations between mentor and prot g as a way of meditating on the possibilities of democratic governance? In Friendship's Bonds, Richard Dellamora revisits the classical and Victorian dream that a just society would be one governed by friends. In the actual struggle over who should or should not be eligible for the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812238133
• ISBN13: 9780812238136
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.4"