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.