Description
This Study Of Victorian Fiction's Response To Religious Nonconformity Focuses Particularly On The Ways Dissent Is Presented In The Novels Of The Brontes, Mrs. Gaskell, George Eliot, Dickens, Mrs. Oliphant, And Mark Rutherford. As Well As Scrutinizing The Causes And Effects Of Their Varying Responses To Dissent, The Author Explores The Wider Background Of Dissent In The Period- Its Spread And Location, Its Links With The City And With Radicalism, And Its Attitudes To Fiction. --dust Jacket. Introduction: Background Into Foreground -- 1. Openness: Openness Versus Illiberalism -- Dissenting Disabilities And The Novel -- 2. All Sorts And Conditions: The Variety Of Dissent -- The Variety Of Dissenting Views On The Novel -- The Variety Of Dissent And The Novel -- 3. Places And Politics: The Regionalism Of Dissent -- Dissent And The City -- Radicalism And Dissent -- 4. The Presence Of Dissent -- 5. The Brontës -- 6. Mrs. Gaskell -- 7. George Eliot: Introductory -- Adam Bede -- Felix Holt -- 8. Charles Dickens: What Dickens Knew -- Stereotypes -- Dickens And The Anti-dissenting Tradition -- The Dickens Tradition -- 9. Mrs. Oliphant And The Tradition -- 10. Was There A Revolution In Tanner's Lane? -- 11. The Sense Of An Ending -- Appendix: Charlotte Brontë's Ms. 'julia'. Valentine Cunningham. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [293]-302.
