Marroni, Francesco.

Victorian Disharmonies : A Reconsideration of Nineteenth-Century English Fiction. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (241 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Victorian Ethos and the Disharmony of the World -- A Tale of Two Cities: Dickens and the Guillotine -- Wilkie Collins, Death, and the Labyrinth of the Letter -- Cousin Phillis: Illness as Language -- The Cursed Hearth: Desire and Deceit in the Short Stories of Elizabeth Gaskell -- The Whirlpool: Gissing, Vocation, and Modernity -- Jude the Obscure and the Spectacle of Disharmony -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

9781936249145


English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Social problems in literature.
Social conflict in literature.
Social change in literature.
Order in literature.
Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.


Electronic books.

PR878.S62 -- M3713 2010eb

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