The Opera is an 1832 novel by the British writer
Catherine Gore, originally published in three volumes.[1] It is part of the tradition of
silver fork novels focusing on British
high society of the later
Regency era.[2][3] One contemporary reviewer launched a critical attack on its elitism, and lack of realism about everyday lives.[4] The novel makes many references to the ongoing debate about the
Reform Bill.[5]
Adburgham, Alison. Silver Fork Society: Fashionable Life and Literature from 1814 to 1840. Faber & Faber, 2012.
Copeland, Edward. The Silver Fork Novel: Fashionable Fiction in the Age of Reform. Cambridge University Press, 2012. Ohio State University Press, 1994.
Murphy, Paul Thomas. Toward a Working-class Canon: Literary Criticism in British Working-class Periodicals, 1816-1858.
Parker, Roger & Rutherford, Susan. London Voices, 1820–1840: Vocal Performers, Practices, Histories. University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Rosa, Matthew Whiting. The Silver-fork School: Novels of Fashion Preceding Vanity Fair. Columbia University Press, 1936.
Wilson, Cheryl A. Fashioning the Silver Fork Novel. Routledge, 2015.
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