Culture, Class and Gender in the Victorian Novel

Download or read book Culture, Class and Gender in the Victorian Novel written by A. Young and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-07-05 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines class and its representation in Victorian literature, focusing on the emergence of the lower middle class and middle-class responses to it. Arlene Young analyses portraits of white-collar workers, both men and women, who laboured under disparaging misperceptions of their values, abilities, and cultural significance, and shows how these misperceptions were both formulated and resisted. The analysis includes canonical texts like Dickens's Little Dorrit and Gissing's The Odd Women as well as less well-known works by Dinah Mulock Craik, Margaret Oliphant, Amy Levy, Grant Allen, H.G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, and May Sinclair.