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

ISBN-13: 9781399507707 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

PIONKE ALBERT D

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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Victorian Middle-Class Status and the Negative Assertion of Value

Chapter One: The Orphan Narratives of a Class Lacking Antecedents
Chapter Two: Repudiations of Wealth in Victorian Financial Fiction
Chapter Three: The Violence at the Heart of the Social Problem Novel
Chapter Four: Social Domination, Social Scientific Empiricism, and Novelistic Distrust of the Modern Fact
Chapter Five: Legitimizing the Subjection of Middle-Class Women in Mid-Victorian Fiction

Afterword
Bibliography
Index