1st Edition
Language of Gender and Class Transformation in the Victorian Novel
By Patricia Ingham
Copyright 1996
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Language of Gender and Class challenges widely-held assumptions about the study of the Victorian novel. Lucid, multilayered and cogently argued, this volume will provoke debate and encourage students and scholars to rethink their views on ninteenth-century literature. Examining six novels, Patricia Ingham demonstrates that none of the writers, male or female, easily accept stereotypes of... Read more
Chapter 1 The Representation of Society in the Early Nineteenth Century; Chapter 2 The Interlocked Coding of Class and Gender; Chapter 3 Shirley; Chapter 4 North and South; Chapter 5 Hard Times; Chapter 6 Changes in the Representation of Class in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century; Chapter 7 Felix Holt; Chapter 8 The Unclassed; Chapter 9 Jude the Obscure;
Biography
Patricia Ingham is Fellow in English at St Anne's College, Oxford, and Times Lecturer in English Language. She has developed what is recognised as an original linguistic model of criticism already used illuminatingly in her previous works, which include Thomas Hardy: A Feminist Reading (1989) and Dickens, Women and Language (1992).
