This book describes various accounts of the Victorian social-problem novel, examining their strengths and limitations in the light of the historiographical assu

This book describes various accounts of the Victorian social-problem novel, examining their strengths and limitations in the light of the historiographical assu

What if the political work of Victorian social-problem novels was precisely to make the reader feel as if reading them--in and of itself--mattered? Surveying no

This book describes various accounts of the Victorian social-problem novel, examining their strengths and limitations in the light of the historiographical assu

Explores the journalism and fiction appearing in the early Victorian working-class periodical press and its influence on mainstream literature.