The Silver Fork Novel: Fashionable Fiction in the Age of Reform

by Edward Copeland

Book Overview

In the early nineteenth century there was a sudden vogue for novels centering on the glamour of aristocratic social and political life. Such novels, attractive as they were to middle-class readers, were condemned by contemporary critics as dangerously seductive, crassly commercial, designed for the 'masses' and utterly unworthy of regard. Until recently, silver-fork novels have eluded serious consideration and been overshadowed by authors such as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107507669
• ISBN13: 9781107507661
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"