Class Fictions: Shame and Resistance in the British Working-Class Novel, 1890-1945 FROM THE PUBLISHER
Class Fictions offers an equally rigorous analysis of cultural studies itself, which has historically sought to defend and value the radical difference of working-class culture. Fox also brings to her analysis a strong feminist perspective that devotes considerable attention to the often overlooked role of gender in working-class fiction. She demonstrated that working-class novels not only expose master narratives of middle-class culture that must be resisted, but they also reveal to us a need to create counter narratives or formulas of working-class life. In doing so, this book provides a more subtle sense of the role of resistance in working-class culture. While of interest to scholars of Victorian and working-class fiction, Pamela Fox's argument has far-reaching implications for the way literary and cultural studies will be defined and practiced.
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The author looks at class-specific writing as a mode of resistance developed within the modern British working-class literary project. She focuses on fictional narratives produced between 1890 and 1945 and analyzes the historical forces that fostered the development of an identifiable class outlook, such as the rise of the Labour party, trade union activism, and the Labour College movement. She discusses the public/private domain of working-class culture, and romance and the politics of resistance in working-class writing. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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