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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Main Author: Fox, Pamela, 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 1994.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
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.