UID:
almafu_9961055524402883
Format:
1 online resource (vii, 233 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-3995-0773-7
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1-3995-0772-9
Series Statement:
Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture
Content:
Bringing together historical, literary and sociological theory, this study recaptures the Victorians' broad sense of epistemological uncertainty about their rapidly changing society, reconstructs novelists' specific attempts to legitimate their traditionally low-status genre and offers fresh readings of novels by Charlotte Brontë, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, William North, Anthony Trollope, William Makepeace Thackeray and Charlotte Yonge, among others.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2023.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgements --
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Introduction: Victorian Middle-Class Status and the Negative Assertion of Value --
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1. The Orphan Narratives of a Class Lacking Antecedents --
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2. Repudiations of Wealth in Victorian Financial Fiction --
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3. The Violence at the Heart of the Social Problem Novel --
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4. Social Domination, Social Scientific Empiricism, and Novelistic Distrust of the Modern Fact --
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5. Legitimizing the Subjection of Middle-Class Women in Mid-Victorian Fiction --
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Afterword --
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Bibliography --
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Index
Additional Edition:
Print version: Pionke, Albert Victorian Fictions of Middle-Class Status Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,c2022
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781399507721
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