New York: Barnes and Noble. Very Good/Very Good. 1971. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 0389041785 Dust jacket complete in a clear protective sleeve. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. Previous owner's details on ffep. Frontis plate. Plates. 310 pages clean and tight. Surprisingly, this book is the first study of its kind ever published; and the first since 1903 to explore the relationship between working class fiction and Victorian society. Dr Keating examines the presentation of the urban and industrial working classes in Victorian fiction. He considers the different types of working men and women who appear in fiction, the environments they are shown to inhabit, and the use of phonetics to indicate the sound of working class voices. Evidence is drawn from a wide range of major and minor fiction, and new light is cast on writers such as Dickens, Mrs Gaskell, Charles Kingsley, George Gissing, Rudyard Kipling and Arthur Morrison. .

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Bookseller: CHARLES BOSSOM (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 133350
Title: The Working Classes in Victorian Fiction.
Author: Keating, P.J
Format/Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good/Very Good
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0389041785
ISBN 13: 9780389041788
Publisher: Barnes and Noble
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1971

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