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This list of historical fiction is designed to provide examples of notable works of historical fiction (in literature, film, comics, etc.) organized by time period.. For a more exhaustive list of historical novels by period, see Category:Historical novels by setting, which lists relevant Wikipedia categories; see also the larger List of historical novels, which is organized by country, as well ...
The Industrial Revolution unsettled the centuries-old class structure, shifting wealth and power to manufacturers who mass-produced goods in the north. Cities such as Manchester, on which Gaskell modelled her fictional Milton, were hastily developed to house workers who moved from the semi-feudal countryside to work in the new factories.
Books about the Industrial Revolution (5 P) S. Works about the Second Industrial Revolution (1 C) Steampunk (10 C, 37 P) Pages in category "Works about the Industrial ...
The novel was later published in book format by Doubleday in 1906. [2] The book realistically depicts working-class poverty, immigrant struggle, lack of social support or welfare, harsh living and dangerous working conditions, generating hopelessness or cynicism and cruelty among the powerless. These elements are contrasted with the deeply ...
Books about the Industrial Revolution (c. 1760-1820/1840). Pages in category "Books about the Industrial Revolution" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
Books about the Industrial Revolution (5 P) Books about the Iranian revolution (12 P) R. Books about the Russian Revolution (2 C, 24 P) Pages in category "Books about ...
The genre's popularity was conjoined to an expanding book market and growth of a reading public, by-products of the Industrial Revolution. [2] Whereas romance and realism had traditionally been contradictory modes of literature, they were brought together in sensation fiction.
Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction that incorporates retrofuturistic technology and aesthetics inspired by, but not limited to, 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Steampunk works are often set in an alternative history of the Victorian era or the American frontier , where steam power remains in mainstream ...