Critic Kenneth Churchill
argues that Ouida was the first English writer to chronicle the sense of growing disillusion
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Gale Research.
43: 376
with the practical outcomes of the new state established in Italy by the Risorgimento. She...
Textual Features
Ouida
The book examines the failings of the newly unified post-Risorgimento Italy. The novel follows the career of Nelleman, a petty bureaucrat or village secretary who uses his power for tyranny and extortion
