Robert Surtees & Early Victorian Society

by Norman Gash

A contribution both to Surtees studies and to Victorian social history, this is the first study to put Surtees' opinions and sentiments in an historical rather than a literary context. It uses historical evidence to provide a background for Surtees' novels, and uses his writings to enlarge the purely historical evidence. While the traditional concentration of social historians has been on urban life, industrialization, and social reform, Surtees'...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198204299
• ISBN13: 9780198204299
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 414 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.8" x 8.7"