Mary Barton A Classic Victorian Novel of Industry and Social Conflict
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
22.08.2008
Verlag
Smk BooksSeitenzahl
312
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,2/1,9 cm
Gewicht
509 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-60459-476-8
Elizabeth Gaskell's powerful first novel stands among the most important social novels of the Victorian era, portraying the hardships, tensions, and human struggles of industrial England with remarkable compassion and realism. In Mary Barton, Gaskell follows the lives of working-class families in Manchester as economic hardship, labour unrest, class division, and personal tragedy shape the fate of the young Mary Barton and those around her. Originally published in 1848, the novel offered contemporary readers an unusually direct and sympathetic depiction of industrial poverty, unemployment, labour conflict, and the widening gulf between workers and manufacturers during the early Industrial Revolution. Combining social criticism with emotional storytelling, romance, mystery, and vivid characterisation, Mary Barton helped establish the Victorian social-problem novel and influenced later writers concerned with industrial society and reform. Through its exploration of class tension, moral responsibility, family loyalty, grief, and social injustice, Gaskell created a deeply human portrait of ordinary lives shaped by powerful economic forces. Blending literary realism with emotional depth and social observation, the novel remains a landmark of nineteenth-century English literature and one of the defining works of industrial Britain. Ideal for readers of Victorian fiction, social realism, nineteenth-century British literature, industrial history, literary classics, and historical fiction.
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