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Bringing together historical, literary and sociological theory, this study recaptures the Victorians' broad sense of epistemological uncertainty about their rapidly changing society, reconstructs novelists' specific attempts to legitimate their traditionally low-status genre and offers fresh readings of novels by Charlotte Brontë, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, William North, Anthony Trollope, William Makepeace Thackeray and Charlotte Yonge, among others.

English fiction --- Middle class in literature. --- Middle class --- Social status in literature. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. --- Bourgeoisie --- Commons (Social order) --- Middle classes --- Social classes --- Middle classes in literature --- History and criticism. --- History --- Social conditions