Culture, Class and Gender in the Victorian Novel: Gentlemen, Gents and Working Women
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.
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Culture, Class and Gender in the Victorian Novel: Gentlemen, Gents and Working Women
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.
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Culture, Class and Gender in the Victorian Novel: Gentlemen, Gents and Working Women

Culture, Class and Gender in the Victorian Novel: Gentlemen, Gents and Working Women

by A. Young
Culture, Class and Gender in the Victorian Novel: Gentlemen, Gents and Working Women

Culture, Class and Gender in the Victorian Novel: Gentlemen, Gents and Working Women

by A. Young

(1999)

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780312223465
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 07/05/1999
Edition description: 1999
Pages: 227
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Arlene Young is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Manitoba.

Table of Contents

Introduction
• "A Kind of a Sort of a Gentleman"
• The Literary Evolution of the Lower Middle Class
• Voices from the Margins
• Bachelor Girls and Working Women
• Modern Prometheus Unbound
• Conclusion

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