| Culture, Class and Gender in the Victorian Novel: Gentlemen, Gents and Working Women 1999 Edition Contributor(s): Young, A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0333740173 ISBN-13: 9780333740170 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 1999 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 823.809 |
| LCCN: 99013785 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6" W x 9" (1.14 lbs) 227 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book examines class and its representation in Victorian literature, focusing on the emergence of the lower middle class and middle-class responses to it. Arlene Young analyses portraits of white-collar workers, both men and women, who laboured under disparaging misperceptions of their values, abilities, and cultural significance, and shows how these misperceptions were both formulated and resisted. The analysis includes canonical texts like Dickens's Little Dorrit and Gissing's The Odd Women as well as less well-known works by Dinah Mulock Craik, Margaret Oliphant, Amy Levy, Grant Allen, H.G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, and May Sinclair. |