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Both, Fiona C. M. de (2018)

Rural, Urban, and Industrial Scenes in Victorian Industrial Novels

Master thesis | Literary Studies (MA)
This thesis investigates the role of rural, urban, and industrial landscapes in Charles Dickens’s Hard Times, Benjamin Disraeli’s Sybil, and Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South and Mary Barton. These four novels focus on the social turbulences surrounding industrialisation and are all set in an industrial town in the north of England. In each novel, the descriptions of rural, urban and industrial landscapes support that novel’s view on industrialisation and the subsequent social tensions.
nineteenth-century literature
Charles Dickens
Elizabeth Gaskell
Benjamin Disraeli
industrialisation
Author
Both, Fiona C. M. de
Faculty
Faculty of Humanities
Specialisation
English Literature and Culture
Supervisors
Liebregts, P.Th.M.G.
ECTS Credits
20
Language
en