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The silver fork novel : fashionable fiction in the age of reform /
"In the early nineteenth century there was a sudden vogue for novels centering on the glamour of aristocratic social and political life. Such novels, attractive as they were to middle-class readers, were condemned by contemporary critics as dangerously seductive, crassly commercial, designed fo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;
81. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "In the early nineteenth century there was a sudden vogue for novels centering on the glamour of aristocratic social and political life. Such novels, attractive as they were to middle-class readers, were condemned by contemporary critics as dangerously seductive, crassly commercial, designed for the 'masses' and utterly unworthy of regard. Until recently, silver-fork novels have eluded serious consideration and been overshadowed by authors such as Jane Austen. They were influenced by Austen at their very deepest levels, but were paradoxically drummed out of history by the very canon-makers who were using Austen's name to establish their own legitimacy. This first modern full-length study of the silver-fork novel argues that these novels were in fact tools of persuasion, novels deliberately aimed at bringing the British middle classes into an alliance with an aristocratic program of political reform"--Provided by publisher. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 290 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-286) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139518284 1139518283 9781139015059 1139015052 9781139514781 1139514784 1139507818 9781139507813 1107224128 9781107224124 9786613684653 6613684651 1139513850 9781139513852 |