Culture, Class and Gender in the Victorian Novel: Gentlemen, Gents and Working Women

by Arlene Young

This book examines class and its representation in Victorian literature, focusing on the emergence of the lower middle class and middle-class responses to it. Arlene Young analyses portraits of white-collar workers, both men and women, who laboured under disparaging misperceptions of their values, abilities, and cultural significance, and shows how these misperceptions were both formulated and resisted. The analysis includes canonical texts like Dickens's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333740173
• ISBN13: 9780333740170
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"