Behind her times : transition England in the novels of Mary Arnold Ward / Judith Wilt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilt, Judith, 1941-

Series:

Victorian literature and culture series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ward, Humphry, Mrs., 1851-1920--Knowledge and learning.

Ward, Humphry.

Ward, Humphry, Mrs., 1851-1920.

Ward, Humphry, Mrs., 1851-1920--Political and social views.

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

Literature and history.

Literature and history--England--History--20th century.

Women and literature--England--History--19th century.

Women and literature.

History.

Political and social views.

England.

Women and literature--England--History--20th century.

National characteristics, English, in literature.

Social history in literature.

England--In literature.

Physical Description:

242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2005.

Summary:

From 1890 to 1905, Mary Arnold Ward was the best-selling novelist in the English language. As the Edwardian age came to an end, however, she became a target of scorn for modernists such as Virginia Woolf, and today most of her books have fallen out of print. But in her novels we can vividly experience the long transition from Victorian to modern England and see again the high melodrama of science's challenge to Christianity, of political socialism and che social gospel, and of women's suffrage and the First World War. The niece of Matthew Arnold and wife of the art critic of the

Contents:

Introduction : "the great Mary"

"All the great parts" : debuting in Miss Bretherton and The Coryston family

Robert Elsmere : the Englishman as heretic

Marcella : the end of aristocracy

Deep waters in Helbeck of Bannisdale

"Beauty that must die" : the sex war in Delia Blanchflower

Effort's England : Mary Arnold Ward writes the Great War.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-234) and index.

ISBN:

0813923670

OCLC:

57342292