UID:
almafu_9959677602502883
Format:
1 online resource (253 p.)
ISBN:
1-283-06294-1
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9786613062949
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0-8223-8293-8
Series Statement:
Post-contemporary interventions
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-1542-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-1533-5
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780822382935
