The "respectables" and the "roughs": Subjectivity and Class in the Academy and Victorian Women's Writing

by Mary Leiby

Abstract:

Examination of class-based constructions of the literary canon and the academy derived from standards of "respectability" and "roughness" inherited from Victorian culture; analysis of forgotten lower middle-class and working-class Victorian women writers' texts.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0530005794
• ISBN13: 9780530005799
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Dissertation Discovery Company
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 2.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 11.0"