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From: Journal of European Studies
Date: 19960901
Author:Davey, E.R.

'This book is about change,' writes Childers '... change in the ways we might view early Victorian culture and the role of the novel in its formation' (p. 1). Childers tries some more high-sounding descriptions of his purposes, but this simple one is probably the most accurate. Childers attempts to show how the Victorian novel, as represented by Disraeli's Coningsby, Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton and Charles Kingsley's Alton Locke, gives (albeit fictional) 'life' to circumstances which might otherwise remain either distant or unknown to the wider reading public, and in so doing ...

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