Class fictions : shame and resistance in the British working-class novel, 1890-1945 / Pamela Fox.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fox, Pamela, 1958-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Post-contemporary interventions.

Post-contemporary interventions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Working class writings, English--History and criticism.

Working class writings, English.

Literature and society--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Literature and society.

Working class--Great Britain--Intellectual life.

Working class.

Working class in literature.

Shame in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-234) and index.

ISBN:

9786613062949

9781283062947

1283062941

9780822382935

0822382938

OCLC:

213455247