Gender at Work in Victorian Culture
Subtitle: Literature, Art and Masculinity (Nineteenth Century (Aldershot, England).)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: September 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780754652922
Subjects: Gender studies; Literary studies: 19th century; Social history; Literary Criticism; Great Britain; Literature - Classics / Criticism; History and criticism; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; 19th century; English literature; History; Literature and society; Working class in literature
First sentence: The 'Gospel of Work' is now used as shorthand to characterize the dominant attitude toward labor in the Victorian period; while not all Victorian men would have assented to its doctrines, it sums up the mixture of self-discipline and piety that constituted a broad middle-class consensus in the period.