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

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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Main Author: Fox, Pamela, 1958- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 1994.
Series:Post-contemporary interventions.
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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 (viii, 241 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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.
Language:English.
Reproduction Note:Electronic reproduction.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.
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