Cunningham, Valentine. “Goodness and Goods:
Victorian Literature and Values for the Middle Class Reader,” Proceedings
of the British Academy Vol. 78 (1992): 109-27.
Cunningham considers the treatment in Victorian literature of the relationship
between the good and goods, between industrialism and its societal effects,
especially those on the poor. He declares that Kingsley was conflicted
by the two sides. On the one hand, Kingsley believed that a modernizing
England required industrialism. On the other, he was adamant that
those adversely affected by industry's foul effects had to be rescued.
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and Political Views; Industrialism. |
