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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
1994.
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| Series: | Post-contemporary interventions.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 241 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-234) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780822382935 0822382938 1283062941 9781283062947 9786613062949 6613062944 |
| Access: | Access restricted to Kwantlen Polytechnic University students, faculty and staff. |