Behind her times : transition England in the novels of Mary Arnold Ward

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Label

Behind her times : transition England in the novels of Mary Arnold Ward

Title remainder

transition England in the novels of Mary Arnold Ward

Statement of responsibility

Judith Wilt

Creator

• Wilt, Judith, 1941-

Subject

• History
• Literature and history -- England -- History -- 19th century
• Literature and history -- England -- History -- 20th century
• National characteristics, English, in literature
• Social history in literature
• Ward, Humphry, Mrs, 1851-1920 -- Knowledge
• Ward, Humphry, Mrs, 1851-1920 -- Political and social views
• Women and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century
• Women and literature -- England -- History -- 20th century
• England -- In literature

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

• "From 1890 to 1905, Mary Arnold Ward was the best-selling novelist in the English language. As the Edwardian age came to an end, however, she became a target of scorn for modernists such as Virginia Woolf, and today most of her books have fallen out of print. But in her novels we can vividly experience the long transition from Victorian to modern England and see again the high melodrama of science's challenge to Christianity, of political socialism and the social gospel, and of women's suffrage and the First World War."
• "In this new critical examination, Judith Wilt sees Ward as being "behind her times" in two senses - in her tireless defense of her evolving era's achievements and intentions, but also in her wariness of the advance of time and of the violence of change. Writing during what she recognized as a period of transition, she dramatized both a welcome of and a resistance to modernity, seeing the social developments of the day as temporary structures, subject to transition themselves."--Jacket

Member of

• Victorian literature and culture series

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

823/.8

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PR5718.E46

LC item number

W55 2005

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Victorian literature and culture series