The imagination of class
Subtitle: masculinity and the Victorian urban poor
By: Dan Bivona, Roger B. Henkle.
Contributors: Henkle, Roger B.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: English prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Urban poor -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Social classes in literature.; Masculinity in literature.; Sex role in literature.; Poverty in literature.; Poor in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sensational journalism, male detachment, and the feminized victim; title: Culturalism, the feminized poor, and the land of deadened affect; title: Morrison, Gissing, and the stark reality; title: Hell hath its flâneurs : the discourse of the abyss; title: Conclusion : representing the poor and forestalling abjection.