Masculinity and the English Working Class: Studies in Victorian Autobiography and Fiction

ISBN-13: 9780415541695 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 266 str.

Ying Lee

Opis

This book analyzes Victorian working-class masculinity through the dual lenses of autobiography and fiction, examining the ways in which the literary marketplace helped to shape popular notions of gender, class and subjectivity.

Recenzje

"Ying S. Lee's Masculinity and the English Working Class exhibits the best attributes of a succesfully revised dissertation; a smart theoretical position, an innovative tweak of methodology, and an informed, up-to-date argument."--Victorian Studies, Summer 2009

Spis treści

List of Illustrations Permissions Acknowledgments Chapter One: Introduction: Gender and Genre Chapter Two: In Gentleman’s Service: Diary of William Tayler, Footman, 1837 and The Pickwick Papers Chapter Three: Representing the Working Man: The Autobiography of a Working Man and Mary Barton Chapter Four: Autodidacts and Men of Letters: My Story and Alton Locke Chapter Five: Other Others: Incidents in a Gipsy’s Life Notes Bibliography Index

O autorze

Ying S. Lee