A ne'er-do-well exploits his gentle daughter's beauty for social advancement in this masterpiece of tragic fiction. Hardy's 1891 novel defied convention to focus on the rural lower class for a frank treatment of sexuality and religion. Then and now, his sympathetic portrait of a…
Deborah Epstein Nord explores the way in which the female figure is used as a marker for social suffering, poverty, and contagion in texts by De Quincey, Lamb Pierce Egan, and Dickens.
Deborah Epstein Nord explores the way in which the female figure is used as a marker for social suffering, poverty, and contagion in texts by De Quincey, Lamb Pierce Egan, and Dickens.
The Posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club
by Dickens, Charles (, Wormald, Mark
fromPenguin classics
Discusses nineteenth-century English author Jane Austen's life and provides critical studies of her six novels.