Everywhere spoken against : dissent in the Victorian novel /

Cunningham, Valentine,

Everywhere spoken against : dissent in the Victorian novel / [print] Valentine Cunningham. - Oxford : Clarendon Press, (c)1975. - xii, 311 pages ; 23 cm.



Background into foreground -- Openness -- Openness versus illiberalism -- Dissenting disabilities and the novel -- All sorts and conditions -- The variety of dissent -- The variety of dissenting views on the novel -- The variety of dissent and the novel -- Places and politics -- The regionalism of dissent -- Dissent and the city -- Radicalism and dissent -- The presence of dissent -- The Brontes -- Mrs. Gaskell -- George Eliot -- Introductory -- Adam Bede -- Felix Holt -- Charles Dickens -- What Dickens knew -- Stereotypes -- Dickens and the anti-dissenting tradition -- The Dickens tradition -- Mrs. Oliphant and the tradition -- Was there a revolution in Tanner's Lane? -- The sense of an ending -- Charlotte Bronte's Ms. 'Julia'.



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English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Dissenters in literature.

PR878 PR878.C973.E947 1975