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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777988403321

Autore

Fox Pamela <1958->

Titolo

Class fictions [[electronic resource] ] : shame and resistance in the British working-class novel, 1890-1945 / / Pamela Fox

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 1994

ISBN

1-283-06294-1

9786613062949

0-8223-8293-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 p.)

Collana

Post-contemporary interventions

Disciplina

823/.912093520623

Soggetti

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

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. [225]-234) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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