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Class in turn-of-the-century novels of Gissing, James, Hardy, and Wells [electronic resource] / Christine DeVine.

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author:	DeVine, Christine, 1947-
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Routledge, 2016.
Series:	Routledge library editions. The nineteenth-century novel ; v. 10.
Subjects:	Wells, H. G. > (Herbert George), > 1866-1946 > Political and social views. Gissing, George, > 1857-1903 > Political and social views. Hardy, Thomas, > 1840-1928 > Political and social views. James, Henry, > 1843-1916 > Political and social views. English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism. Social classes in literature. Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Gissing, George, > 1857-1903. Hardy, Thomas, > 1840-1928. James, Henry, > 1843-1916. Wells, H. G. > (Herbert George), > 1866-1946. English fiction. Literature and society. Political and social views. Great Britain. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.

Table of Contents:

1. "We are the working classes" : the London poor in Gissing's The nether world
2. "Is this democracy to prove fatal to England?" : international terrorism, the Times and James's The princess Casamassima
3. "A cloud of moral hobgoblins" : gender, morality and class in Hardy's Tess of the d'Ubervilles
4. "The splintering frame" : Well's Tono-Bungay and Edwardian class.