The Literature of Change: Studies in the Nineteenth Century Provincial Novel

by John Lucas

Book Overview

First published in 1977, this book studies three important nineteenth-century novelists: Mrs Gaskell, William Hale White and Thomas Hardy. They are all provincial novelists who wrote about social change and the attendant problems and pressures this brought with it. Unlike previous critics, who have tended to concentrate on her 'social-problem' novels, here the author treats Gaskell's Sylvia's Lovers and Cousin Phillis as central texts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138676365
• ISBN13: 9781138676367
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"