Robert Surtees and early Victorian society / Norman Gash.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gash, Norman.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Surtees, Robert Smith, 1805-1864--Criticism and interpretation.

Surtees, Robert Smith.

Surtees, Robert Smith, 1805-1864.

Literature and society--England--History--19th century.

Literature and society.

Criticism and interpretation.

England.

History.

England--Social life and customs--19th century.

Manners and customs.

Social history in literature.

Physical Description:

407 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

Summary:

A contribution both to Surtees studies and to Victorian social history, this is the first study to put Surtees' opinions and sentiments in an historical rather than a literary context. It uses historical evidence to provide a background for Surtees' novels, and uses his writings to enlarge the purely historical evidence. While the traditional concentration of social historians has been on urban life, industrialization, and social reform, Surtees' more conservative world of the countryside, small provincial towns, and the seedier side of London would have been familiar to the majority of his countrymen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0198204299 :

OCLC:

28181793