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Social Commentary and Critique in the Victorian Novel
2019. urn:nbn:hr:142:342067
Žigmundovac, Vinko
Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English Language and Literature

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Žigmundovac, V. (2019). Social Commentary and Critique in the Victorian Novel (Master's thesis). Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:342067

Žigmundovac, Vinko. "Social Commentary and Critique in the Victorian Novel." Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2019. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:342067

Žigmundovac, Vinko. "Social Commentary and Critique in the Victorian Novel." Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2019. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:342067

Žigmundovac, V. (2019). 'Social Commentary and Critique in the Victorian Novel', Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 09 April 2025, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:342067

Žigmundovac V. Social Commentary and Critique in the Victorian Novel [Master's thesis]. Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2019 [cited 2025 April 09] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:342067

V. Žigmundovac, "Social Commentary and Critique in the Victorian Novel", Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Osijek, 2019. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:342067

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TitleSocial Commentary and Critique in the Victorian Novel
Title (croatian)Analiza i kritika društva u viktorijanskom romanu
AuthorVinko Žigmundovac
MentorJadranka Zlomislić (mentor)
Committee memberLjubica Matek (predsjednik povjerenstva)
Committee memberJadranka Zlomislić (član povjerenstva)
Committee memberJasna Poljak Rehlicki (član povjerenstva)
GranterJosip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(Department of English Language and Literature)
Osijek
Defense date and country2019-12-18, Croatia
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Philology
Anglistics
Abstract
This paper explores the social and historical context of the Industrial Revolution in Victorian England as portrayed in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South and Dickens’s Hard Times. Both authors create their locations and characters to depict the effects of heavy industrialization that led to the dehumanization of the Victorian society. Inspired by the filthy and polluted industrial towns, Gaskell’s critique highlights the contrast between the North and the South and the vast gap between the rich and the poor, the masters and the workers that leads to class struggles and violence. Likewise, Dickens emphasizes the same gap focusing on the system of education that produces a workforce resembling programmed machines to suit the needs of the bleak factories. However, despite the pessimism and the gloomy atmosphere of the two novels, both authors hope for reconciliation which is possible by the masters and workers acting in unison, listening and responding to the needs of the other.
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Languageenglish
URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:142:342067
Study programmeTitle: English Language and Literature (double major); specializations in: Teacher Training, Translation and Interpreting Studies, Philology
Course: Philology
Study programme type: university
Study level: graduate
Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra edukacije engleskog jezika i književnosti (magistar/magistra edukacije engleskog jezika i književnosti)
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