The industrial reformation of English fiction: social discourse and narrative form, 1832-1867

Title......Page 1
Copyright......Page 2
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgments......Page 7
Introduction......Page 9
I. FREE WILL VERSUS DETERMINISM......Page 15
1. Workers and Slaves:The Rhetoric of Freedom in the Debate over Industrialism......Page 17
2. The Providential Plot......Page 50
3. Causality versus Conscience:The Problem of Form in Mary Barton......Page 76
II. THE FAMILY VERSUS SOCIETY......Page 125
5. Family and Society:The Rhetoric of Reconciliationin the Debate over Industrialism......Page 127
6. Family and Society: The Tropes of Reconciliationin Popular Industrial Narratives......Page 141
7. ''Relationship Remembered against Relationship Forgot'':Family and Society in Hard Times and North and South......Page 161
III. Facts Versus Values......Page 199
8. The Politics of Representation and the Representation of Politicsin the 1840s......Page 201
The Politics of Culture andthe Debate over Representationin the 1860s......Page 233
Notes......Page 283
Bibliography......Page 309
Index......Page 329