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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fox, Pamela, 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 1994.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Working class writings, English.
Working class > Intellectual life.
Working class in literature.
Shame in literature.
Literature and society.
English fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Honte dans la litterature.
Travailleurs dans la litterature.
Litterature et societe > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Écrits d'ouvriers anglais > Histoire et critique.
Roman anglais > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Working class > Great Britain > Intellectual life.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Working class writings, English > History and criticism.
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Great Britain.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (241 pages).
ISBN:9780822382935

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