Expulsion and the Nineteenth-Century Novel

This book places the realist novel in the centre of current debates by examining the notion that such novels reinforced existing social structures. Heyns's readings of Austen's "Mansfield Park", Dickens's "Our Mutual Friend", Eliot's "Daniel Deronda", Conrad's "Lord Jim", and James's "The Golden Bowl" depict the 19th-century literary scapegoat as begetter of an alternative vision which questioned the values apparently upheld by the novel as a whole.