Culture, Class and Gender in the Victorian Novel

Gentlemen, Gents and Working Women
1999. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-0-333-74017-0
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 227 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 517 g

This book examines class and its representation in Victorian literature, focusing on the emergence of the lower middle class and middle-class responses to it. Arlene Young analyses portraits of white-collar workers, both men and women, who laboured under disparaging misperceptions of their values, abilities, and cultural significance, and shows how these misperceptions were both formulated and resisted. The analysis includes canonical texts like Dickens's Little Dorrit and Gissing's The Odd Women as well as less well-known works by Dinah Mulock Craik, Margaret Oliphant, Amy Levy, Grant Allen, H.G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, and May Sinclair.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Young, A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 'A Kind of a Sort of a Gentleman': The Gentleman's Progress from Sir Charles Grandison to John Halifax The Literary Evolution of the Lower Middle Class: The Natural History of the Gent to Little Dorrit Voices from the Margins: Dickens, Wells, and Bennett Bachelor Girls and Working Women: Women and Independence in Oliphant, Levy, Allen, and Gissing Modern Prometheus Unbound: May Sinclair and The Divine Fire Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

ARLENE YOUNG is Assistant Professor, Department of English at the University of Manitoba.