Silver fork novel, the: fashionable fiction in the age of reform
Auteur :
Copeland, Edward
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781107507661
Date de publication :
5 mars 2015
Dimensions :
22,8 x 15,2 x 1,7 cm
Poids :
440 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
This first modern full-length study of the silver-fork novel argues that such novels, wildly popular in the early years of the nineteenth century and yet condemned by contemporary critics as dangerously seductive, were in fact political fictions designed to effect an alliance of the middle-classes and the aristocracy.