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Masculinity and the English Working Class Studies in Victorian Autobiography and Fiction
By Ying Lee
Copyright 2007
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
List of Illustrations Permissions Acknowledgments Chapter One: Introduction: Gender and Genre Chapter Two: In Gentleman’s Service: Diary of William Tayler, Footman, 1837 and The Pickwick Papers Chapter Three: Representing the Working Man: The Autobiography of a Working Man and Mary Barton Chapter Four: Autodidacts and Men of Letters: My Story and Alton Locke Chapter Five: Other Others: Incidents in a Gipsy’s Life Notes Bibliography Index
Biography
Ying S. Lee
"Ying S. Lee's Masculinity and the English Working Class exhibits the best attributes of a succesfully revised dissertation; a smart theoretical position, an innovative tweak of methodology, and an informed, up-to-date argument."--Victorian Studies, Summer 2009
