The Victorian Industrial Novels (PDF)

Charlotte Bronte's Shirley, Charles Dickens' Hard Times and Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South (Sprache: Englisch)

Autor: Mehmet Akif Balkaya

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The aim of this study is to explore the negative social, political and economic effects of industrialization and urbanization as reflected in Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley (1849), Charles Dickens’ Hard Times (1854), and Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South (1855). These novels, which have a lot in common, are diverse and engaged responses to an accelerating industrial age. In and through the Victorian Era, industrialization made a rapid progress that resulted in the polarization of the society into two camps, viz., the rich and the poor or the exploiter and the exploited. Although these two camps lived side by side, there was no communication between them, which inevitably brought class struggles along with it. The poor workers and their families almost had no social securities. Because of the economic recession and fluctuation or progress in mechanization, workers were laid off. These conditions became the story line of industrial novels, especially during the Victorian Era when novel reading was a popular activity, particularly among the middle class.

Autoren-Porträt von Mehmet Akif Balkaya

Mehmet Akif Balkaya received his M.A. degree in 2014 from the Department of English Language and Literature, Atılım University, Ankara. Currently, he is a PhD candidate at the same university. From 2012 to 2014 Balkaya worked as a research assistant at the department of English Language and Literature in Aksaray University, where he has been working as a lecturer since 2014.His current research interests include feminist theory, ecofeminism, drama, cultural studies and poetry. He has published conference and journal papers on New historicism, Absurd Drama, Industrialism, and postcolonialism.