Common Ground: Eighteenth-Century English Satiric Fiction and the Poor

by Judith Frank

Book Overview

Work on both the satire and the fiction of the English eighteenth century has tended to focus on the transition from a patrician culture to a culture dominated by the logic of the market. This book shifts the focus from the struggle between aristocratic and bourgeois values to another set of important, yet usually unremarked, class relations: those between the gentle classes and the poor.

The author reads four eighteenth-century satiric...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804729085
• ISBN13: 9780804729086
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.9"