The silver fork novel : fashionable fiction in the age of reform /

"In the early nineteenth century there was a sudden vogue for novels centering on the glamour of aristocratic social and political life. Such novels, attractive as they were to middle-class readers, were condemned by contemporary critics as dangerously seductive, crassly commercial, designed fo...

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Main Author: Copeland, Edward (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Series:Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 81.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Cultural contexts
  • The woman's tradition : Edgeworth, Burney and Austen
  • Reform and the silver fork novel
  • Newspapers and the silver fork novel
  • The topography of silver fork London
  • Reform and the silver fork heroine.