In the fiction of the XIX century. select and comment on the descriptions of different layers of European

In the fiction of the XIX century. select and comment on the descriptions of different layers of European society in connection with the completion of the industrial revolution. Determine the positions of the authors of these works to the technical and social changes whose contemporaries they were

Descriptions of this kind are numerous: they can be found in Dickens’ novels (Bleak House, Dombey and Son, Hard Times), Balzac’s The Human Comedy, Zola’s Rougon-Maccara series, and other classic writers. … These novelists described all strata of the then bourgeois society, from ministers, bankers and successful businessmen to beggars, thieves and other declassed city dwellers. They described both financial speculation, and the role played in this society by the press and advertising, rapid railway construction, workers’ riots (in the same Dickens, in the novels of Charles Brontë, etc.). As a rule, they were on the side of “ordinary” people, like the same Dickens, or at least described them sympathetically, they watched the wrong side of technological progress, which leads to the impoverishment of an increasing number of people, but they were not revolutionaries and relied on peaceful transformation of society.