Title Culture, class and gender in the Victorian novel : gentlemen, gents and working women

Published Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan Press ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999

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Description viii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Contents Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for Culture, class, and gender in the Victorian novel : gentlemen, gents, and working women / Arlene Young. -- Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog -- Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. -- Introduction -- "A Kind of a Sort of a Gentleman" -- The Literary Evolution of the Lower Middle Class -- Voices from the Margins -- Bachelor Girls and Working Women -- Modern Prometheus Unbound -- Conclusion -- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: English fiction 19th century History and criticism, Social classes in literature, Literature and society Great Britain History 19th century, Man-woman relationships in literature, Working class women in literature, Sex role in literature, Men in literature Summary "Culture, Class and Gender in the Victorian Novel Gentlemen, Gents and Working Women examines the interrelation of social class and its literary representation in Victorian Britain, focusing on the emergence of the lower middle class as a literary, as well as a social and cultural phenomenon." "Arlene Young traces popular attitudes towards various representative class and cultural types through the examination of novels, comic sketches and contemporary nineteenth-century social commentaries."--BOOK JACKET Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-221) and index Subject Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Man-woman relationships in literature. Working class women in literature. Sex role in literature. Men in literature. Culture in literature. English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Women in literature. Social classes in literature. LC no. 99013785 ISBN 0333740173 :(Macmillan 0312223463 St. Martin's Press

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