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industrial novel
The industrial novel is a genre of early Victorian literature. A subclass of the social
novel, it portrays the difficult conditions of life of the urban working class
during the Industrial Revolution. Many industrial novels featured sympathetic
portrayals of Chartists or
Typical examples of the genre are:
- Charles Dickens' Hard Times (1854)
- Benjamin Disraeli's Sybil, or the Two Nations (1845)
- Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South (1854) and Mary Barton (1848)
- Charles Kingsley's Alton Locke (1849)
Further reading
- Childers JW. 'Industrial culture and the Victorian novel'. In The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel (David D, ed), Cambridge University Press, 2001
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