The silver fork novel: fashionable fiction in the age of reform

1. Cultural contexts

2. The woman's tradition : Edgeworth, Burney and Austen

3. Reform and the silver fork novel

4. Newspapers and the silver fork novel

5. The topography of silver fork London

6. Reform and the silver fork heroines.

Cover; THE SILVER FORK NOVEL; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; CHAPTER 1: Cultural contexts; NEW CONTEXTS; THE NOVELISTS; NEW R E ADERS, THE ADVERTISING IMPULSE; THE GLIDING EYE; THE ISSUES; CHAPTER 2: The woman's tradition: Edgeworth, Burney and Austen; EDGEWORTH AND BURNEY; DEEP STRUCTURE; CHAPTER 3: Reform and the silver fork novel; WHIGS AND TORIES; CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION, 1829; ELECTORAL REFORM; THE MIDDLE CLASSES; THE BILL ITSELF; AFTER THE BILL; WHIG DECLINE; CHAPTER 4: Newspapers and the silver fork novel

THE SILVER FORK NOVEL AND THE PRESS, 1825 TO 1830THE SILVER FORK NOVEL AND THE PRESS, 1830 TO 1841; PLACE-HUNTING EXTRAORDINARY; CHAPTER 5: The topography of silver fork London; CHAPTER 6: Reform and the silver fork heroine; ACCOMPLISHMENTS; AT THE OPERA; HOME THE ATRICALS; Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index;