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Class Fictions : Shame and Resistance in the British Working Class Novel, 1890-1945 /

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 n...

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Autor principal: Fox, Pamela, 1958- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 1994.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (241 pages).
ISBN:9780822382935