Masculinity and the English Working Class - Studies in Victorian Autobiography and Fiction - Hardback - 2007

Analyzes Victorian working-class masculinity through the dual lenses of autobiography and fiction, examining the ways in which the literary marketplace helped to shape popular notions of gender, class and subjectivity. This book demonstrates that working-class masculinities differ substantially from those of the widely studied upper classes.
Year of publication: 2007
Pagination: 264 pages, black & white illustrations, figures
Format: Hardback
Serie: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory