The Industrial Reformation of English Fiction: Social Discourse and Narrative Form, 1832-1867

by Catherine Gallagher

Book Overview

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."

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226279324
• ISBN13: 9780226279329
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.