CHAPTER II

INSTITUTIONS

Victorian attitude toward established institutions. Satire directed against the following: Society, including the home, woman, marriage; the State, including politics, sociology, law, charities and corrections, war; the Church, treated both by

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signifying education, from the fireside to the college; Literature and the Press; the English as a nation. Lack of complementary reconstruction 179

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