Title: Art and society in the Victorian novel : essays on Dickens and his contemporaries /
Authors: Gibson, Colin.; Horsman, E. A. 1918-2019
Publisher: St. Martin's Press,
Year: 1989
Subjects: Dickens, Charles, Political and social views.; English fiction History and criticism; Social problems in literature.; Literature and society Great Britain History
Contents: Laughter, imagination and the cruelty of life: a view of Oliver Twist / John Watson -- Bleak House: another look at Jo / Kathleen Tillotson -- Form and fable in Hard Times / John Holloway -- The choir-master and the single buffer: an essay on The Mystery of Edwin Drood / W.W. Robson -- 'I must keep in good health, and not die' / Miriam Allott -- Love and the aspiring mind in Villette / Jocelyn Harris -- The historic imagination in George Eliot / Ian Milner -- Physicians in Victorian fiction / Philip Collins -- Trollope's love-stories / Juliet McMaster -- Under the greenwood tree and the Victorian pastoral / Lawrence Jones -- The complex simplicity of The Ambassadors / D.W. Harding -- When 'omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre / Sydney Musgrove.