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Butler

Erewhom

Utopian fantasy


England shown as lunatic nation


The author ridicules the narrator's desire to convert to Christianity the natives of the country

Butler

The way of all flesh

Family background & education of ERNEST PONTIFEX


Narrow Victorian family values


Attempts to stress the significance of social evolution and family influence

Ward

Robert Elsemere

The hero is an Anglican priest troubled by doubts concerning the German doubts

Ward

Helbeck of Bannisdale

Ward 1894

Marcella

Story of an idealistic heroine struggling with the dilemma posed by her love for an uncompromisingly Tory landowner

Sinclair

Mary Olivier

Shift in literary texts

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You can never tell

Contrast between generations and attitudes

Rutherford 1881

The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford

Delineates a provincial minister's decliningreligious vocation and his consequent descent into melancholy and alcohol

Rutherford 1885

Mark Rutherford's deliverance

Sequel of the autobiographmore positive commitment to the problems of a troubled social fabric in London

Rutherford

The revolution in Tanner's Lane 1887

Beyond individual clerical doubt to the broader proletarian world of the articulate artisan and the dissenting tradesman.


Discussion of radical political edge of early and mid-19h century

Pater

Studies in the history of the Renaissance 1873

triumphant assertion of styleshaped around relative clauses, parentheses, phrases

Pater

Marius the Epicurean

Historical novel


Story of tje slow movement of a pagan roman towards Christian conversion

Hardy

Under the Greenwood Tree

Christian religion has gone tje way of feudalism

Hardy

Far from the madding crowd

Hardy

Jude the obscure

1895


character wrenched from his roots


ARABELLA DONN


・Crude and exploitative and practical


・Survivor vs the odds


SUE BRIDEHEAD


combo of fictionality and frigidity


Contradictory personality


Hardy's women characters

More determined than male characters

Hardy

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

TESS DURBEYFIELD


"pure woman" (subtitle)


Passivity of a fatalist versus her strength of will defying male dominance

A modern lover


A mummer's wife

Moore's banned novels

Irish author


Moore

A drama in Muslin

@Ireland still dominated by countryhouses of the Anglo-irish ascendancy & by a viceregal court in Dublin Castle


French influences


Native themes and social issues

Moore

Esther Waters

Working class heroine, forced out of her home by a drunken stepfather and obliged to work as a servant at a racing stable in Sussex


Seduced, made pregnant, abandoned

Moore

Tje book Kerith

Retelling of the Gospels from the pow of JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA

Moore

Hail and farewell

Autobiographical comedy


TRILOGY which looks at contemporaries in literary worlds of London and Dublin

Gissing

Workers in tje dawn

Fictional realism


Socialist aspirations

Gissing

The unclassed


Demos: a story of English socialism

Fictional realism


Empathy w/ the urban poor


evoke the miseries and degradation of slum life


popular Radicals = self-deceived

Gissing

Private papers of Henry Ryecroft

Narrator: resentment of a middle-class outsider

Gissing

The odd women

Story of 3 impoverished sisters who cling desperately to respectability in their shabby-genteel lodgings in London


RHODA NUNN


かっこいい女

Gissing

New Grub street

Protagonist: EDWIN REARDON


Women writers share w/ the male protagonist a discouraging awareness of bitterness, waste and exploitation in contemporary literary London


romantic idea of isolated suffering artist