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1 online resource (viii, 241 pages) |
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Post-contemporary interventions |
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Post-contemporary interventions.
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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 |
| Summary |
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 nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through the concept of class shame, she produces a model of working-class subjectivity that understands resistance in a more accurate and useful way-as a complicated kind of refusal, directed at both dominated and dominant culture. With a focus on cer |
| Analysis |
English fiction History,1900-1945 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-234) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Working class writings, English -- History and criticism
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Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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Working class -- Great Britain -- Intellectual life
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Working class in literature.
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Shame in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English fiction
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Literature and society
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Shame in literature
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Working class in literature
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Working class -- Intellectual life
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Working class writings, English
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
94018394 |
| ISBN |
9780822382935 |
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0822382938 |
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1283062941 |
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9781283062947 |
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9786613062949 |
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6613062944 |
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