Feeling for the Poor: Bourgeois Compassion, Social Action, and the Victorian Novel by Carolyn Betensky

Feeling for the Poor: Bourgeois Compassion, Social Action, and the Victorian Novel

Victorian Literature & Culture (Hardcover)

Carolyn Betensky

225 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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What if the political work of Victorian social-problem novels was precisely to make the reader feel as if reading them--in and of itself--mattered? Surveying novels by Charles Dickens, Frances Trollope, Benjamin Disraeli, Elizabeth Gaskell, George...

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