The treatment of the recent past in nineteenth-century fiction, with particular reference to George Eliot

This thesis examines a practice of nineteenth-century novelists which has often been mentioned by critics but never studied in detail - the setting of much of their work in a period a generation or two before the time of writing. Its main focus is on the fiction of George Eliot set in the recent pas...

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Main Author: Wilkes, Joanne Claire
Published: University of Oxford 1984
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.350355