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Project

"Narratives of Continuity: Form and function of the British Conservative novel in the Long Nineteenth Century"
Code
3E003715
Duration
01 October 2016 → 30 September 2019
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • History
    • Language studies
    • Literary studies
    • Theory and methodology of language studies
    • Theory and methodology of linguistics
    • Theory and methodology of literary studies
    • Other languages and literary studies
    • Theory and methodology of philosophy
Keywords
nineteenth century political history conservatism novels British literature English 19th Century Novel Western Europe History Literary studies
 
Project description

This project will provide the first comparative study of how British politically-conservative novelists, from Walter Scott to F. M. Ford, participated in political debate about four major issues of the nineteenth century: the development of modern conservative doctrine, the social effects of industrialism, the crisis of religious moral institutions, and the late-Victorian emancipation of the lower classes.