Karen O'brien

Images of Transgression in the European Social Novel: Bourgeois Consciousness, Mentalities, and the Politics of Representation Karen O'brien

This book examines images of transgression and the political and social representations of the working class in the European social novel. The novels Hard Times, Germinal and Mary Barton which were written as the writers' response to the social consequences of industrialism and the class conflict of nineteenth-century Europe are examined as historical primary sources. The texts examined in this book as historical documents, reveal the writers' reaction to industrialism and class relations of the period.