Research Catalog

Title

Class in late-Victorian Britain : the narrative concern with social hierarchy and its representation / Kevin Swafford.

Author

Swafford, Kevin.

Publication

Youngstown, N.Y. : Cambria Press, c2007.

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Description

xv, 175 p.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Social classes in literature
• Class consciousness in literature
• Poor in literature
• Slums in literature
• Working class in literature
• London (England) > In literature
• Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century
• Middle class in literature
• English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-171) and index.

Contents

Performance anxiety and class : Anthony Trollope's The Claverings -- Cultural paternalism in the East End of London : Walter Besant's All sorts and conditions of men -- Socialist paternalism : Margaret Harkness' Out of work -- Translating the slums : the coding of class in Arthur Morrison's A child of the Jago and Somerset Maugham's Liza of Lambeth -- The East End and the politics of narration : Jack London's The people of the abyss -- Reification and respectability in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'urbervilles and George Moore's Esther Waters -- Narrative, class, and the critique of respectability in H.G. Wells' The history of Mr. Polly.

Call Number

JFE 07-5113

ISBN

• 9781934043493 (alk. paper)
• 1934043494 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2006101032

OCLC

• 76940065
• vendorOCM76940065

Author

Swafford, Kevin.

Title

Class in late-Victorian Britain : the narrative concern with social hierarchy and its representation / Kevin Swafford.

Imprint

Youngstown, N.Y. : Cambria Press, c2007.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-171) and index.

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Research Call Number

JFE 07-5113