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UNINA9910777988403321 |
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Autore |
Fox Pamela <1958-> |
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Titolo |
Class fictions [[electronic resource] ] : shame and resistance in the British working-class novel, 1890-1945 / / Pamela Fox |
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Durham, : Duke University Press, 1994 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-06294-1 |
9786613062949 |
0-8223-8293-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (253 p.) |
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Collana |
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Post-contemporary interventions |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
Working class writings, English - History and criticism |
Literature and society - Great Britain - History - 20th century |
Working class - Great Britain - Intellectual life |
Working class in literature |
Shame in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-234) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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