Culture, Class and Gender in the Victorian Novel

Gentlemen, Gents and Working Women

By: A. Young

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Hardcover | 5 July 1999 | Edition Number 1

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This work examines class and its representation in Victorian literature, focusing on the emergence of the lower middle class and middle class responses to it. The author analyzes portraits of white collar workers, both men and women, who laboured under disparaging misperceptions of their values, abilities, and cultural significance, and shows how these misperceptions were both formulated and resisted. The analysis includes canonical texts like Dickens's "Little Dorrit" and Gissing's "The Odd Women" as well as less well known works by Dinah Mulock Craik, Margaret Oliphant, Amy Levy, Grant Allen, H.G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, and May Sinclair.

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'Arlene Young's acute and lively book could be subtitled 'The Gent's Revenge'. Her path-breaking study of nineteenth-century and early modern British writing shows how representations of the lower middle class, especially of men, sustained, tested, and altered the ideas of the dominant middle classes about themselves. Young's reading of Dickens and other novelists, some of whom she recalls from unwarranted neglect, demonstrates how literature works as both a register and an agent of social tensions and change.' - Donald Gray, editor, Victorian Studies

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Introduction	p. 1
'A Kind of a Sort of a Gentleman': the Gentleman's Progress from Sir Charles Grandison to John Halifax	p. 14
The Literary Evolution of the Lower Middle Class: The Natural History of the Gent to Little Dorrit	p. 45
Voices from the Margins: Dickens, Wells and Bennett	p. 87
Bachelor Girls and Working Women: Women and Independence in Oliphant, Levy, Allen and Gissing	p. 119
Modern Prometheus Unbound: May Sinclair and The Divine Fire	p. 157
Conclusion	p. 189
Notes	p. 192
Bibliography	p. 213
Index	p. 222
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