Challenging widely-held assumptions about the study of the Victorian novel, this work considers the following examples of the genre: "Shirley" by Charlotte Bronte, "Felix Holt" by George Eliot, "Hard Times" by Charles Dickens and "Jude the Obscure" by Thomas Hardy.
This book shows how the Brontes writings engage with the major issues which dominate twentieth century theoretical work and why they are amongst a set of texts on which the application of... Læs mere