Bivona, Daniel.

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.

Open Access

9780814272497 0814272495




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


Electronic books.

PR878.P66 / B58 2006

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