Class fictions : shame and resistance in the British working-class novel, 1890-1945 /
Many recent discussions of working-class culture in literary and cultural studies have tended to present an oversimplified view of resistance. In this groundbreaking work, Pamela Fox offers a far more complex theory of working-class identity, particularly as reflected in British novels of the late n...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
1994.
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| ISBN: | 9780822382935 0822382938 1283062941 9781283062947 9786613062949 6613062944 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Recovering the "Narrow plot of acquisitiveness and desire": a methodology for reading working-class narrative
- 1. Rehabilitating working-class cultural and literary history: the critical agenda
- 2. The ragged trousered philanthropists and after: epistemologies of class, legacies of resistance
- 3. On the "Borderland of tears": reputation, exposure and the public/private dynamic of working -class culture
- 4. The "Revolt of the gentle": romance and the politics of resistance in working-class writing
- Afterward: Getting their own back.