LIT 4047 Victorian Literature (PLNU) ~ Novels of Class, Gender, and Race Dashboard

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This group is the COVE Editions place for our LIT 4047 Victorian Literature course. Here in COVE Editions is where we will collaboratively and individually build our timeline, map, and possibly gallery assignments. We will work to get a stronger sense of the Victorian Period--its literature, culture, and history--by our work on these digital documents.

 

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Posted by Jorge Sandoval on Friday, September 24, 2021 - 17:26

Britain had suffered an economic depression that lasted into what would be known as the "hungry fourties". During this time, it was a period of strikes, widespread unemployment, poor harvests, and depressed trade. This was due to crop failures and thus this was resulted in the deaths of many who starved. This was where the new type of genre was created for literature: the social problem novel. This was how Gaskell was able to publish Mary Barton, in relation to this developing trend in fiction. Indeed we can see this throughout the novel. We can see people who were unemployed and thus needed to work in order to get themselves back in their feet.

Gaskell, Elizabeth, Mary Barton; edited Jennifer Foster. 1848, Broadview Literary Texts.

Sutherland, John "An introduction to Mary Barton". The British Libraryhttps://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/an-...

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Posted by Hope Tyler on Friday, September 24, 2021 - 15:52
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Posted by Emma McCoy on Friday, September 24, 2021 - 14:42
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