Dickens to Hardy 1837-1884: The Novel, the Past and Cultural Memory in the Nineteenth CenturyThis authoritative survey examines how the Victorian middle-classes perceived themselves, through analyses of the literature of the period. Asking how the middle classes distinguished themselves from their forbears, Julian Wolfreys reads in detail major novels by: |
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