Pragmatics, Rhetoric, and Cultural Studies -- Subjectivity -- Value -- Situating Subjectivities -- Rhetorical Projects in Participation and Antagonism -- Gendered, Classed Subjects and Cultural Narratives -- Subjectivity, the Body, and Material Culture -- Working Women's Uncanny World of Childbirth -- Henry Mayhew's Rich World of Poverty -- Florence Nightingale's Violent World of Leisure -- Representations of the Working Classes by Nonworking-Class Writers: Subjectivity and Solidarity -- The Classic Victorian Novel: Solidarity for Whom? -- Nonfictional Representations -- Late Victorian Short Fiction -- Working-Class Autobiography, Subjectivity, and Value -- Working-Class Subjectivity and Aesthetics -- The Variety of Working-Class Autobiography -- Conclusions: Subjectivity and Value -- The Making of Middle-Class Identities: School and Family -- The Male Public Schools -- Women on Schools and Rules -- Literary Subjectivity and Other Possibilities in Some Classic Texts -- Literary Subjectivity -- Other Possibilities -- Concluding Observations through 1990
Summary
The author suggests that whereas bourgeois subjectivity ordinarily resembles the central and progressively developing self of such novels as David Copperfield, working class subjectivity consists of attention to working environment and community that diminishes the concern with self. These differences account for the relative valuations placed on middle class and working class autobiographies by the literary establishment
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-309) and index
