In this sophisticated application of modern Marxist thought, N. N. Feltes demonstrates the determining influence of nineteenth-century publishing practices on t

This book offers a much-needed study of the Victorian novel's role in representing and shaping the service sector's emergence. Arguing that prior accounts of th

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This guide steers students through significant critical responses to the Victorian novel from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day.