The silver fork novel [electronic resource] : fashionable fiction in the age of reform / Edward Copeland.

The silver fork novel [electronic resource] : fashionable fiction in the age of reform / Edward Copeland.

9781139518284 (electronic bk.)
1139518283 (electronic bk.)
9780521513333
0521513332
9781139516433
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9781139015059 (electronic bk.)
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

English

1 online resource (x, 290 pages) : illustrations.

PR868.S615 C66 2012eb

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"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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Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 81.

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