Author: WEBB, Igor.
Title: From Custom to Capital. The English Novel and the Industrial Revolution.
Description: Cornell University Press, 1981. Hardcover. Good condition in dj. Argues that "...novels written during the years 1780 - 1850 reflect England's transition from an agrarian to an industrial nation: from custom to capital." Includes an examination of Austen's Pride and Prejudice & Mansfield Park, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre & Shirley, Charles Dickens' Hard Times etc. 219pp.

Keywords: literary literature history historical criticism english nineteenth 19th century 18th eighteenth marxist