Edinburgh University Press
Victorian Fictions of Middle-Class Status : Forms of Absence in the Age of Reform
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9781399507714
ISBN13:
9781399507714
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$31.47
Reconstructs the surprising, self-interested and at times paradoxical attempts of Victorian novelists to define the limits of middle-class status Victorian Fictions of Middle-Class Status recovers the novelistic pervasiveness of a Reform-Era rhetorical form, the negative assertion of value, which grounds middle-class claims to social authority in repudiations of such conventional warrants as birth, wealth, numerical preponderance, command of fact and, specifically for women, the symbolic phallus. Bringing together historical, literary and sociological theory, this study recaptures the Victorians' broad sense of epistemological uncertainty about their rapidly changing society, reconstructs novelists' specific attempts to legitimate their traditionally low-status genre and offers fresh readings of novels by Charlotte Brontë, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, William North, Anthony Trollope, William Makepeace Thackeray and Charlotte Yonge, among others. Albert D. Pionke is the William and Margaret Going Endowed Professor of English at the University of Alabama.
| Author: Albert D Pionke |
| Publisher: Edinburgh University Press |
| Publication Date: Aug 15, 2024 |
| Number of Pages: NA pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 1399507710 |
| ISBN-13: 9781399507714 |
Victorian Fictions of Middle-Class Status : Forms of Absence in the Age of Reform
$31.47
Reconstructs the surprising, self-interested and at times paradoxical attempts of Victorian novelists to define the limits of middle-class status Victorian Fictions of Middle-Class Status recovers the novelistic pervasiveness of a Reform-Era rhetorical form, the negative assertion of value, which grounds middle-class claims to social authority in repudiations of such conventional warrants as birth, wealth, numerical preponderance, command of fact and, specifically for women, the symbolic phallus. Bringing together historical, literary and sociological theory, this study recaptures the Victorians' broad sense of epistemological uncertainty about their rapidly changing society, reconstructs novelists' specific attempts to legitimate their traditionally low-status genre and offers fresh readings of novels by Charlotte Brontë, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, William North, Anthony Trollope, William Makepeace Thackeray and Charlotte Yonge, among others. Albert D. Pionke is the William and Margaret Going Endowed Professor of English at the University of Alabama.
| Author: Albert D Pionke |
| Publisher: Edinburgh University Press |
| Publication Date: Aug 15, 2024 |
| Number of Pages: NA pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 1399507710 |
| ISBN-13: 9781399507714 |
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