A paper reissue of the 1985 edition (0-226-27932-4) of which the Virginia Quarterly Review wrote of the controversies about social, material, and spiritual well-being that accompanied the expansion of industrial production in 19th- century England . . . . Using the Industrial Novels of Gaskell, Kingsley, Disraeli, Dickens, and Eliot, the author demonstrates with profound skill [the] relation between social change and change in literary form."