Hidden hands
Subtitle: working-class women and Victorian social-problem fiction
By: Patricia E. Johnson.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Working class women in literature.; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Working class writings, English -- History and criticism.; Working class women -- Great Britain -- Intellectual life.; Social problems in literature.
Description: "Tracing the Victorian literary crisis over the representation of working-class women to the 1842 parliamentary blue book on mines and its controversial images of women at work, Hidden Hands argues that the female industrial worker became more dangerous to represent than the prostitute or the male radical because the worker exposed crucial contradictions between the class and gender ideologies of the period and its economic realities."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-217) and index.