The silver fork novel [electronic resource] : fashionable fiction in the age of reform / Edward Copeland.
2012
PR868.S615 C66 2012eb
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The silver fork novel [electronic resource] : fashionable fiction in the age of reform / Edward Copeland.
Author
Copeland, Edward.
ISBN
9781139518284 (electronic bk.)
1139518283 (electronic bk.)
9780521513333
0521513332
9781139516433
1139516434
9781139015059 (electronic bk.)
1139015052 (electronic bk.)
1139514784 (electronic bk.)
9781139514781 (electronic bk.)
1139518283 (electronic bk.)
9780521513333
0521513332
9781139516433
1139516434
9781139015059 (electronic bk.)
1139015052 (electronic bk.)
1139514784 (electronic bk.)
9781139514781 (electronic bk.)
Publication Details
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 290 p.) : ill.
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PR868.S615 C66 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
823/.809
Summary
"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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 81.
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Silver fork novel.
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Table of Contents
1. Cultural contexts
2. The woman's tradition : Edgeworth, Burney and Austen
3. Reform and the silver fork novel
4. Newspapers and the silver fork novel
5. The topography of silver fork London
6. Reform and the silver fork heroines.
2. The woman's tradition : Edgeworth, Burney and Austen
3. Reform and the silver fork novel
4. Newspapers and the silver fork novel
5. The topography of silver fork London
6. Reform and the silver fork heroines.