Culture, Class and Gender in the Victorian Novel

Gentlemen, Gents and Working Women

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A Young

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This work examines class and its representation in Victorian literature, focusing on the emergence of the lower middle class and middle class responses to it. The author analyzes 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.

Author Biography:

ARLENE YOUNG is Assistant Professor, Department of English at the University of Manitoba.

Release date NZ

July 5th, 1999

Author

A Young

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

VIII, 227 p.

Pages

227

Dimensions

152x229x20

ISBN-13

9780333740170

Product ID

1754124

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