The silver fork novel : fashionable fiction in the age of reform

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The silver fork novel : fashionable fiction in the age of reform

Title remainder

fashionable fiction in the age of reform

Statement of responsibility

Edward Copeland

Creator

• Copeland, Edward
• Copeland, Edward

Author

• Copeland, Edward
• Copeland, Edward

Subject

• Manners and customs in literature
• Social classes in literature
• English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• Fashion in literature
• Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
• Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century

Language

eng

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

Member of

• Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, 81
• Online access with purchase: Cambridge Books Online

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UkCbUP

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries