The Industrial Reformation of English Fiction: Social Discourse and Narrative Form, 1832-1867
by Catherine Gallagher
University of Chicago Press, 1985
Cloth: 978-0-226-27932-9 | Paper: 978-0-226-27933-6
Library of Congress Classification PR878.I62G35 1985
Dewey Decimal Classification 823.809355
TOC
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One:
- Free Will versus Determinism
- 1
- Workers and Slaves: The Rhetoric of Freedom in the Debate over Industrialism
- 2
- The Providential Plot
- 3
- Causality versus Conscience: The Problem of Form in Mary Barton
- 4
- The Tailor Unraveled: The Unaccountable “I” in Kingsley's Alton Locke: Tailor and Poet
- Part Two:
- The Family versus Society
- 5
- Family and Society: The Rhetoric of Reconciliation in the Debate over Industrialism
- 6
- Family and Society: The Tropes of Reconciliation in Popular Industrial Narratives
- 7
- “Relationship Remembered against Relationship Forgot”: Family and Society in Hard Times and North and South
- Part Three:
- Facts versus Values
- 8
- The Politics of Representation and the Representation of Politics in the 1840s
- 9
- The Politics of Culture and the Debate over Representation in the 1860s
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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