The silver fork novel
Social classes in literature
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
English fiction, history and criticism, 19th century
Literature and society
English fiction
Social life and customs
History and criticism
"In the early nineteenth century there was a sudden vogue for novels centering on the glamour of aristocratic social and political life. Such novels, attractive as they were to middle-class readers, were condemned by contemporary critics as dangerously seductive, crassly commercial, designed for the…
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