Working-class Stories of the 1890s

Working-class Stories of the 1890s
ISBN-10
1317217691
ISBN-13
9781317217695
Category
History
Pages
158
Language
English
Published
2016-06-17
Publisher
Routledge
Author
P. J. Keating

Description

First published in 1971, this collection of short stories, set in the East End of London in the 1890s, offers a corrective to the view of nineties’ literature as dominated by aestheticism, and shows how many late Victorian writers tried to break with Dickensian models and write of working class life with less moral intrusion and a greater sense of realism. The editor has provides a succinct, historical and critical introduction, a bibliography of further reading, notes on the authors and stories, and a glossary of slang and phoneticized words. This book will be of particular interest to students of Victorian literature.

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