000			01561nam a2200169 4500
020			_a9781137612069
082			_a823.809 _bWOL/D
100			_aWolfreys, Julian
245			_aDickens to Hardy1837-1884: the novel, the past and cultural memory in the nineteenth century
260			_bPalgrave Macmillan _c2007 _aNew York
300			_ax,293p.
490			_aTransitions
520			_aThis authoritative survey examines how the Victorian middle-classes perceived themselves, through analyses of the literature of the period. Asking how the middle classes distinguished themselves from their forbears, Julian Wolfreys reads in detail major novels by: - Charles Dickens - Elizabeth Gaskell - Wilkie Collins - George Eliot - Thomas Hardy. Wolfreys explores the novelists' constructions of modernity, national identity and their understanding of 'becoming historical' in distinction from that of previous generations. He offers illuminating close readings of texts and examines narratives set in a recent past in order to investigate the role of cultural memory in the making of identity. Also featuring a helpful Chronology and an Annotated Bibliography to aid further study, this stimulating guide encourages readers to reassess the work of key writers of the nineteenth century. JULIAN WOLFREYS is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Drama at Loughborough University, UK. He was previously Professor in Literature at the University of Florida, USA.
650			_aCollective memory in literature
650			_aEnglish fiction
942			_cBK
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