Social Identity and Literary Form in the Victorian Novel: Race, Class, Gender and the Uses of Genre Franks Jill
Social Identity and Literary Form in the Victorian Novel: Race, Class, Gender and the Uses of Genre Franks Jill Enormous social changes during the Victorian era inspired some of the finest novels in…
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Social Identity and Literary Form in the Victorian Novel: Race, Class, Gender and the Uses of Genre Franks Jill
Enormous social changes during the Victorian era inspired some of the finest novels in the English language. Consciousness of the injustice of class- and gender-based discrimination was growing. In the final decades of the century, rigid application of gender rules and class hierarchies began to relax.
The British used scientific racism to justify their relentless expansion in Africa and Asia.Viewing Victorian literature through the lens of these social changes gives the modern reader a fresh way to interpret the novels and to appreciate their relevance to contemporary issues. Meanwhile, bias against nonwhite peoples was worsening. Nineteenth-century novelists deployed realism, satire, and the bildungsroman to resist or support leading ideologies of their time, including the separate spheres doctrine and British supremacism.
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