Name: Victorian Fictions of Middle-Class Status: Forms of Absence in the Age of Reform
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Author: Pionke, D. Albert
ISBN: 9781399507714

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Victorian Fictions of Middle-Class Status: Forms of Absence in the Age of Reform

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Physical Book

Author

D. Albert Pionke

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Language

English

Pages

248

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781399507714

Synopsis "Victorian Fictions of Middle-Class Status: Forms of Absence in the Age of Reform"

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.

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