This book challenges widely-held assumptions about the study of the Victorian novel. The novels which Ingham studies are 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