The Victorian Social-Problem Novel: The Market, the Individual and Communal Life

by Josephine M. Guy

This book describes various accounts of the Victorian social-problem novel, examining their strengths and limitations in the light of the historiographical assumptions which underlie them. An alternative historical account is offered, which focuses on the novels' intellectual milieu - specifically on mid-Victorian concepts of 'the social' and of what was understood by the term 'social problem'. In detailed readings of individual works, the book argues that an appreciation of these concepts permits new ways of understanding the contradictions identified in these works together with their apparently 'conservative' politics.

256 pages, Paperback

First published September 18, 1996

Reviews

[Julia Lindemann · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book turned out to be very helpful for my term paper.

[Yağmur · Rating 4 out of 5]

note: I didn't read the whole book. I just read some parts for, my Research and Writing paper.