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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781027803321

Autore

Marroni Francesco <1949->

Titolo

Victorian disharmonies [[electronic resource] ] : a reconsideration of nineteenth-century English fiction / / Francesco Marroni

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newark, DE, : University of Delaware Press

Rome, : The John Cabot University Press, 2010

ISBN

1-936249-14-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

823/.809355

Soggetti

English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Social problems in literature

Social conflict in literature

Social change in literature

Order in literature

Literature and society - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

English translation of: Disarmonie vittoriane, with revisions.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

A tale of two cities: Dickens and the guillotine -- Wilkie Collins, death, and the labyrinth of the letter -- Cousin Phillis: illness as language -- The cursed hearth: desire and deceit in the short stories of Elizabeth Gaskell -- The whirlpool: Gissing, vocation, and modernity -- Jude the obscure and the spectacle of disharmony.