The silver fork novel : fashionable fiction in the age of reform / Edward Copeland.

By:

Copeland, Edward [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 81.Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012Description: 1 online resource (x, 290 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781139518284
1139518283
9781139015059
1139015052
9781139514781
1139514784
1139507818
9781139507813
1107224128
9781107224124
9786613684653
6613684651
1139513850
9781139513852

Other title:

Fashionable fiction in the age of reform

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Silver fork novel.DDC classification:

823/.809 23

LOC classification:

PR868.S615 C66 2012eb

Other classification:

LIT004120

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Contents:

Cultural contexts -- The woman's tradition : Edgeworth, Burney and Austen -- Reform and the silver fork novel -- Newspapers and the silver fork novel -- The topography of silver fork London -- Reform and the silver fork heroine.

Summary: "In the early nineteenth century there was a sudden vogue for novels centering on the glamour of aristocratic social and political life. Such novels, attractive as they were to middle-class readers, were condemned by contemporary critics as dangerously seductive, crassly commercial, designed for the 'masses' and utterly unworthy of regard. Until recently, silver-fork novels have eluded serious consideration and been overshadowed by authors such as Jane Austen. They were influenced by Austen at their very deepest levels, but were paradoxically drummed out of history by the very canon-makers who were using Austen's name to establish their own legitimacy. This first modern full-length study of the silver-fork novel argues that these novels were in fact tools of persuasion, novels deliberately aimed at bringing the British middle classes into an alliance with an aristocratic program of political reform"--Provided by publisher.

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"In the early nineteenth century there was a sudden vogue for novels centering on the glamour of aristocratic social and political life. Such novels, attractive as they were to middle-class readers, were condemned by contemporary critics as dangerously seductive, crassly commercial, designed for the 'masses' and utterly unworthy of regard. Until recently, silver-fork novels have eluded serious consideration and been overshadowed by authors such as Jane Austen. They were influenced by Austen at their very deepest levels, but were paradoxically drummed out of history by the very canon-makers who were using Austen's name to establish their own legitimacy. This first modern full-length study of the silver-fork novel argues that these novels were in fact tools of persuasion, novels deliberately aimed at bringing the British middle classes into an alliance with an aristocratic program of political reform"--Provided by publisher.