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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451109603321

Autore

Ingham Patricia

Titolo

The language of gender and class : transformation in the Victorian novel / / Patricia Ingham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1996

ISBN

1-134-89134-2

1-134-89135-0

1-280-32131-8

0-203-41869-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Disciplina

823.809

823.809355

823/.809

Soggetti

English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Literature and society - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Social classes in literature

Sex role in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-189) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Language of Gender and Class Transformation in the Victorian Novel; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on references; 1 The Representation of Society in the  Early Nineteenth Century; 2 The Interlocked Coding of Class and Gender; 3 Shirley; 4 North and South; 5 Hard Times; 6 Changes in the Representation of Class in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century; 7 Felix Holt; 8 The Unclassed; 9 Jude The Obscure; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Language of Gender and Class challenges widely-held assumptions about the study of the Victorian novel. Lucid, multilayered and cogently argued, this volume will provoke debate and encourage students and scholars to rethink their views on ninteenth-century literature. Examining six novels, Patricia Ingham demonstrates that none of the



writers, male or female, easily accept stereotypes of gender and class. The classic figures of Angel and Whore are reassessed and modified. And the result, argues Ingham, is that the treatment of gender by the late nineteenth century is released