Böcker i Broadview Literary Texts-serien

This text dramatises many key issues relating to class and gender in late Victorian culture. In Gissing's story, Virginia Madden and her two sisters are confronted upon the death of their father with sudden impoverishment.

Mary Hay''s first novel, Memoirs of Emma Courtney, transgresses literary and social conventions with its outspoken heroine who pursues the man she loves. It concerns itself with issues of female dependence, sexuality, and woman's role in society.

Aurora Floyd is one of the leading novels in the genre known as "sensation fiction". Braddon''s text has been carefully annotated for modern readers in this edition, including documents setting the text in context.'

Mary Robinson''s work has started to assume a central place in criticism and anthologies of romanticism. A writer of the 1790s, Robinson's poems chronicle the major events of the day and participate in the chief aesthetic innovations.

Provides an outstanding introduction to a difficult period of literary history. This volume provides a simple historical and cultural context for the study of the Anglo-Saxons, and offers a history, illustrated by many passages in translation, of the whole of the literature that survives.

In 1832, Harold Transome arrives home from the East to inherit the family estate, and startles his family by standing as a Radical candidate. He is well-intentioned but misguided, and his character is contrasted with idealistic artisan, Felix Holt.