03542nam 22007334a 450 991081572590332120080401102445.01-283-06294-197866130629490-8223-8293-810.1515/9780822382935(CKB)1000000000757569(EBL)1167675(SSID)ssj0000391774(PQKBManifestationID)12154718(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000391774(PQKBWorkID)10346886(PQKB)10970464(OCoLC)213455247(MiAaPQ)EBC1167675(OCoLC)1140821527(MdBmJHUP)muse79763213455247(DE-B1597)554464(DE-B1597)9780822382935(OCoLC)1170162619(EXLCZ)99100000000075756920080318d1994 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrClass fictions shame and resistance in the British working-class novel, 1890-1945 /Pamela FoxDurham Duke University Press19941 online resource (253 p.)Post-contemporary interventionsDescription based upon print version of record.0-8223-1542-4 0-8223-1533-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-234) and index.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.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 cerPost-contemporary interventions.English fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismWorking class writings, EnglishHistory and criticismLiterature and societyGreat BritainHistory20th centuryWorking classGreat BritainIntellectual lifeWorking class in literatureShame in literatureEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.Working class writings, EnglishHistory and criticism.Literature and societyHistoryWorking classIntellectual life.Working class in literature.Shame in literature.823/.912093520623Fox Pamela1958-1613062NcDNcDBOOK9910815725903321Class fictions3942172UNINA