First published in 1966, this book collects six essays which discuss the experience of social change as it reveals itself in the work of several nineteenth cent

Through analysis of eight English novels of the Nineteenth century, this work explores the ways in which the novel contributes to the formation of ideology rega

This book identifies and traces bankruptcy as an archetypal experience of the Victorian age and as a major metaphor in the language, imagery, and structure of t

The intention of this collection of essays, first published in 1971, is to explore the political aspects of some nineteenth century English writers. Under the i

This book argues that, due to political and ideological shifts in the last decades of the nineteenth century-a time when the class system in England was in a st