The Victorians were haunted always by the specter of disharmony, says Marroni (English literature, Gabriele d'Annunzio U. of Pescara-Chieti, Italy), and so transformed their lives into a
tireless search for order. He looks at some examples of the eruption of the effort into literature of the period. Among his topics are Dickens and the Guillotine in A Tale of Two Cities,
illness as language in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cousin Phillis, desire and deceit in her short stories, and Jude the Obscure and the spectacle of disharmoney. Disarmonie vittoriane: Rivisitazioni
del canone della narrativa inglese dell'Ottocento was published by Carocci in 2002; Marroni himself translated it, and took the opportunity to make some revisions as well. Distributed in the US
by Associated University Presses. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
