| 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. |