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Author:

Pionke, Albert D., 1974- author.

Title:

Victorian Fictions of Middle-Class Status : forms of absence in the age of reform / Albert D. Pionke.

Publisher:

Edinburgh University Press,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

vii, 233 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

1800-1899
English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Middle class in literature.
Social status in literature.
Middle class--Great Britain--History--19th century.
History.
English fiction.
Middle class.
Middle class in literature.
Social status in literature.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-229) and index.

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture

ISBN:

9781399507707
1399507702

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1316696933

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)