Class fictions [[electronic resource] ] : shame and resistance in the British working-class novel, 1890-1945 / / Pamela Fox
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Durham, : Duke University Press, 1994 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (253 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 823/.912093520623 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Class fictions |
| ISBN: | 1-283-06294-1 |
| 9786613062949 | |
| 0-8223-8293-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910815725903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Post-contemporary interventions.