"Narratives of Continuity: Form and function of the British Conservative novel in the Long Nineteenth Century"

This project will provide the first comparative study of how British politically-conservative novelists, from Walter Scott to F. M. Ford, participated in political debate about four major issues of the nineteenth century: the development of modern conservative doctrine, the social effects of industrialism, the crisis of religious moral institutions, and the late-Victorian emancipation of the lower classes.