The Rise and Fall of the Forsytes: From Neo-Victorian to Neo-Edwardian Marriage
Year: 2011

This essay will argue for the usefulness of examining both ‘neo-Victorian’ and ‘neo-Edwardian’ representational practices in the debates about marriage that dominate John Galsworthy’s novels A Man of Property (1906) and In Chancery (1920). The ‘neo-Victorian’ and ‘neo-Edwardian’ frequently intersect in these texts, but are also placed in opposition, for example, as symbols of tradition and modernity. I consider how this Edwardian novelist employs narrative strategies to distance himself from rec