Victorian disharmonies
Subtitle: a reconsideration of nineteenth-century English fiction
By: Francesco Marroni.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press; The John Cabot University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Newark, De; Rome
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780874130904
Subjects: 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
Work titles: Disarmonie vittoriane.
Notes: English translation of: Disarmonie vittoriane, with revisions.

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