The Imagination of Class Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor /
Dan Bivona and Roger B. Henkle.
- 1 online resource (xvi, 208 p.)
- Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-199) and index.
Sensational journalism, male detachment, and the feminized victim -- Culturalism, the feminized poor, and the land of deadened affect -- Morrison, Gissing, and the stark reality -- Hell hath its flâneurs : the discourse of the abyss -- Conclusion : representing the poor and forestalling abjection.
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Poor in literature. Poverty in literature. Sex role in literature. Masculinity in literature. Social classes in literature. Urban poor--History--Great Britain--19th century. English prose literature--History and criticism.--19th century