The birth of liberal guilt in the English novel : Charles Dickens to H.G. Wells /
Born, Daniel.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,
c1995.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-201) and index.
God's death and the moral imperative : formative British liberalism -- Little Dorritt and the birth of liberal guilt -- Eliot's Grandcourt : nature, nation, and empire -- George Gissing : the apologetics of disengagement -- The burden of Kipling : Lord Jim and Heart of darkness -- Private gardens, public swamps : Howard's End and the revaluation of liberal guilt -- After liberal guilt? : Tono-Bungay and the toxic imagination.
English fiction
Guilt in literature.
English fiction
Liberalism in literature.
Social problems in literature.
Literature and society
Politics and literature