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,...
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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 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
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-234) and index
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CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction Recovering the "Narrow Plot of Acquisitiveness and Desire": A Methodology for Reading Working-Class Narrative; 1 Rehabilitating Working-Class Cultural and Literary History: The Critical Agenda; 2 The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and After: Epistemologies of Class, Legacies of Resistance; 3 On the "Borderland of Tears": Reputation, Exposure, and the Public/Private Dynamic of Working-Class Culture; 4 The "Revolt of the Gentle": Romance and the Politics of Resistance in Working-Class Writing; Afterword: Getting Their Own Back; Notes; Bibliography
