Literature of Change collect and environment—and helps you build

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Elizabeth Mackintosh

Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are now publishing a major statement in

Literature of Change collect and environment—and helps you buildFirst published in 1977, this book studies three important nineteenth century novelists: Mrs Gaskell, William Hale White and Thomas Hardy. They are all provincial novelists who wrote about social change and the attendant problems and pressures this brought with it. Unlike previous critics, who have tended to concentrate on her social problem novels, here the author treats Gaskells Sylvias Lovers and Cousin Phillis as central texts. However a chapter