Victorian Fictions of Middle-Class Status: Forms of Absence in the Age of Reform (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture) - Hardcover

Pionke, Albert D.

 
9781399507707: Victorian Fictions of Middle-Class Status: Forms of Absence in the Age of Reform (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture)
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ISBN 10: 1399507702 ISBN 13: 9781399507707
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2022

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Victorian Fictions of Middle-Class Status recovers the novelistic pervasiveness of a Reform-Era rhetorical form, the negative assertion of value, which grounds middle-class claims to social authority in repudiations of such conventional warrants as birth, wealth, numerical preponderance, command of fact and, specifically for women, the symbolic phallus. Bringing together historical, literary and sociological theory, this study recaptures the Victorians' broad sense of epistemological uncertainty about their rapidly changing society, reconstructs novelists' specific attempts to legitimate their traditionally low-status genre and offers fresh readings of novels by Charlotte Brontë, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, William North, Anthony Trollope, William Makepeace Thackeray and Charlotte Yonge, among others.

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Albert D. Pionke is the William and Margaret Going Endowed Professor of English at the University of Alabama. He is the author of Teaching Later British Literature: A Thematic Approach (Anthem Press, 2019), The Ritual Culture of Victorian Professionals: Competing for Ceremonial Status, 1838–1877 (Ashgate Publishing, 2013), and Plots of Opportunity: Representing Conspiracy in Victorian England (Ohio State University Press, 2004); coeditor of The Socio-Literary Imaginary in 19th and 20th Century Britain: Victorian and Edwardian Inflections (Routledge, 2020), Thomas Carlyle and the Idea of Influence (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2018), and Victorian Secrecy: Economies of Knowledge and Concealment (Ashgate Publishing, 2010); and general editor of the COVE edition of William North’s The City of the Jugglers(COVE Editions, 2021). In addition, he is co-editor of the Victorians Institute Journal and founding director and principal investigator of Mill Marginalia Online.

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Reconstructs the surprising, self-interested and at times paradoxical attempts of Victorian novelists to define the limits of middle-class statusVictorian Fictions of Middle-Class Status recovers the novelistic pervasiveness of a Reform-Era rhetorical form, the negative assertion of value, which grounds middle-class claims to social authority in repudiations of such conventional warrants as birth, wealth, numerical preponderance, command of fact and, specifically for women, the symbolic phallus. Bringing together historical, literary and sociological theory, this study recaptures the Victorians’ broad sense of epistemological uncertainty about their rapidly changing society, reconstructs novelists’ specific attempts to legitimate their traditionally low-status genre and offers fresh readings of novels by Charlotte Brontë, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, William North, Anthony Trollope, William Makepeace Thackeray and Charlotte Yonge, among others.Albert D. Pionke is the William and Margaret Going Endowed Professor of English at the University of Alabama.

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Verlag
Edinburgh University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1399507702
ISBN 13 
9781399507707
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