Homes and Homelessness in the Victorian ImaginationMurray Baumgarten, Hillel Matthew Daleski The essays in this volume deal centrally with Dickens's images of homelessness, but also with those of other Victorians also - Disraeli, Mrs Gaskell, Israel Zangwill, John Ruskin and Henry James. The issues addressed by these Victorians are the same as those we face today. |
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