Class Fictions: Shame and Resistance in the British Working Class Novel, 1890–1945 (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
by Pamela Fox
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Many recent discussions of working-class culture in literary and cultural studies have tended to present an oversimplified view of resistance. In this groundbreaking work, Pamela Fox offers a far more complex theory of working-class identity, particularly as reflected in British novels of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through the concept of class shame, she produces a model of working-class subjectivity that understands resistance in a more accurate and useful way-as a show more complicated kind of refusal, directed at both dominated and dominant culture.With a focus on cer show lessTags
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