The Imagination of Class : Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor / / Dan Bivona and Roger B. Henkle

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910163940803321
• Autore: Bivona Daniel
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2006; ©2006
• ISBN: 9780814272497; 0814272495
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 208 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): HenkleRoger B
• Disciplina: 828/.809352624
• Soggetti: Poor in literature; Poverty in literature; Sex role in literature; Masculinity in literature; Social classes in literature; Urban poor - Great Britain - History - 19th century; English prose literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-199) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Sensational journalism, male detachment, and the feminized victim -- Culturalism, the feminized poor, and the land of deadened affect -- Morrison, Gissing, and the stark reality -- Hell hath its flâneurs : the discourse of the abyss -- Conclusion : representing the poor and forestalling abjection.