Dickens to Hardy 1837-1884: The Novel, the Past and Cultural Memory in the Nineteenth CenturyMacmillan Education UK, 28 de jun. de 2007 - 293 páginas This authoritative survey examines how the Victorian middle-classes perceived themselves, through analyses of the literature of the period. Asking how the middle classes distinguished themselves from their forbears, Julian Wolfreys reads in detail major novels by: |
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... Betteredge is ' setting the scene ' of course . He is attempting to be the good storyteller . Quite how he remembers what the weather was is something that might give us pause , from which opportunity of reflection we might then ...
... Betteredge's opening gambit under- mines therefore the very idea that one can begin from , or is justified in , situating an undeniably authoritative inauguration or genesis . The authority of the origin falls into ruins even as we seem ...
... Betteredge's reflections tacitly acknowledge the undercutting of authority . First , he admits that he did not at the time perceive Blake's ' drift ' . Following further amplifi- cation , Betteredge writes , ' I failed to see what I ...
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