Masculinity and the English Working Class: Studies in Victorian Autobiography and Fiction

by Ying S. Lee

This book examines representations of working-class masculine subjectivity in Victorian autobiography and fiction. In it, Ying focuses on ideas of domesticity and the male body and demonstrates that working-class masculinities differ substantially from those of the widely studied upper classes.

The book also maps the relationship between two trends: the early nineteenth-century efflorescence of published working-class autobiographies (in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415981468
• ISBN13: 9780415981460
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.2"