... , the modern distinction between the literary novel and the popular best seller had not yet come into existence. The novels of Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, and Thomas Hardy were read not merely by a literary elite, but widely throughout the expanding middle class and, particularly in the case of Dickens, by the working class as well. This wide readership ... desire and with moral feeling. This conflict in the lives of men, often with autobiographical reference, is played out in Dickens' David Copperfield (1849-1850), Thackeray's Pendennis (1848-1850)...

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... time. It was in this year that "Habeas Corpus", an act that allowed anyone arrested to be brought before a court, was suspended. This was done so that parliamentary reformers like Thomas Hardy and John Thelwall could be denied a fair trial. Taxes were high and food production was low. Blake sees nothing but oppression all around him. His use of the word "every ... ...

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