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The Silver Fork Novel: Fashionable Fiction in the Age of Reform - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Copeland, Edward (Pomona College, California)
The Silver Fork Novel: Fashionable Fiction in the Age of Reform - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Copeland, Edward (Pomona College, California)
This first modern full-length study of the silver-fork novel argues that such novels, wildly popular in the early years of the nineteenth century and yet condemned by contemporary critics as dangerously seductive, were in fact political fictions designed to effect an alliance of the middle-classes and the aristocracy.
306 pages, 6 b/w illus.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | June 21, 2012 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521513333 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 308 |
| Dimensions | 158 × 232 × 20 mm · 614 g |
| Language | English |