examiningg the lilemry works of charls diceens, william makepmce thacktrqy, george elliot and thomas harq)•, the a11thor produces a momic of the victorimr morality in 19th centery e11gla11d. the author comes to tbe concluion that the viaorian age was not as pnritan as it is usually imagined and tlu moral problems that bumankind deals with in the cosrse of its developmml art in their e.mnce 1111...