Frances Theresa Russell sets out to defend three unfashionable things at once: satire, Victorianism and the novel. She examines the satiric spirit and its methods, romantic, realistic and ironic, and follows how the great Victorian novelists turned them on society, religion, politics and the sexes, with plentiful examples drawn from the novels themselves.
Lively academic criticism for readers who love Victorian fiction and want to see how its comedy works. Download the free EPUB.