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Masculinity and the English Working Class - Studies in Victorian Autobiography and Fiction (Hardcover)
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Masculinity and the English Working Class - Studies in Victorian Autobiography and Fiction (Hardcover)
Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
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This book examines representations of working-class masculine
subjectivity in Victorian autobiography and fiction. In it, Ying
focuses on ideas of domesticity and the male body and demonstrates
that working-class masculinities differ substantially from those of
the widely studied upper classes. The book also maps the
relationship between two trends: the early nineteenth-century
efflorescence of published working-class autobiographies (in which
working men construct their identities for a broad readership); and
a contemporaneous surge of public interest in "the lower orders"
that finds reflection in the depiction of working-class characters
in popular novels by middle-class authors. The book mimics this
point of convergence by pairing three working-class autobiographies
with three middle-class novels. Each chapter focuses on a
particular type of work: domestic service, manual (not artisanal)
labour, and literary labour (and the opportunities it offers for
social advancement). Ying considers the specific ways in which
classed and gendered consciousness emerges autobiographically and
its significance in the writing of working-class subjectivity for
public consumption. Then mainstream novels by Charles Dickens,
Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Kingsley are re-read from the
perspective of these autobiographical pressure points.
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