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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-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Class fictions [[electronic resource] ] : shame and resistance in the British working-class novel, 1890-1945 / / Pamela Fox Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-06294-1
9786613062949
0-8223-8293-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910777988403321
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Serie: Post-contemporary interventions.