Writing `Yet literature expresses mens thoughts and passions, which have, after all, a considerable influence upon their lives. The writers of a peoples songs, as we are told, may have a more powerful influence than the maker of their laws. P. 1. Leslie Stephen. English literature and society in the eighteenth century (1903) London, Duckworth. Two writers during the nineteenth century turned their attention to writing novels of social criticism, on English and the other French. It was said that Charles Dickens showed polite British society how the other half lived and Emile Zola did much the same for France. Select one of these writers and write a paper of two to three pages, describing how each of them was able to illustrate just how the other half lived.

Writing `Yet literature expresses mens thoughts and passions, which have, after all, a considerable influence upon their lives. The writers of a peoples songs, as we are told, may have a more powerful influence than the maker of their laws. P. 1. Leslie Stephen. English literature and society in the eighteenth century (1903) London, Duckworth. Two writers during the nineteenth century turned their attention to writing novels of social criticism, on English and the other French. It was said that Charles Dickens showed polite British society how the other half lived and Emile Zola did much the same for France. Select one of these writers and write a paper of two to three pages, describing how each of them was able to illustrate just how the other half lived.