... within the class system could be reconciled with authentic 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), and Hardy's Jude the Obscure (1895). Like all forms of Victorian fiction, the Bildungsroman must be classified by gender, for this was the age ... to Fraser's Magazine, Morning Chronicle, New Monthly Magazine and The Times. His writings attracted first attention in Punch, where he satirized English snobbery. These sketches reappeared i...

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