Language of Gender and Class

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feminist literary criticism
Fro Generation
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Golden Eyes
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Human Suffering
Inter Species
intersection of gender and class in novels
Intra Species
Julian Casti
Lady Audley
Louis Moore
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Martha Endell
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nineteenth-century British fiction
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Osmond Waymark
Reformer John Bright
Richard III
Shirley Keeldar
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Product details

  • ISBN 9780415082228
  • Weight: 380g
  • Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 04 Apr 1996
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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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 gender and class. The classic figures of Angel and Whore are reassessed and modified. And the result, argues Ingham, is that the treatment of gender by the late nineteenth century is released from its task of containing neutralising class conflict. New accounts of feminity can begin to emerge. The novels which Ingham studies are:
* Shirley by Charlotter Bronte
* North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
* Felix Holt by George Eliot
* Hard Times by Charles Dickens
* The Unclassed by George Gissing
* Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

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).

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