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The Imagination of Class Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor / Dan Bivona and Roger B. Henkle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bivona, Daniel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poor in literature.
- Poverty in literature.
- Sex role in literature.
- Masculinity in literature.
- Social classes in literature.
- Urban poor--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Urban poor.
- English prose literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English prose literature.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 208 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2006.
- Contents:
- Sensational journalism, male detachment, and the feminized victim
- Culturalism, the feminized poor, and the land of deadened affect
- Morrison, Gissing, and the stark reality
- Hell hath its flâneurs : the discourse of the abyss
- Conclusion : representing the poor and forestalling abjection.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-199) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780814272497
- 0814272495
- OCLC:
- 971252273
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