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Language of Gender and Class Patricia Ingham

Language of Gender and Class By Patricia Ingham

Language of Gender and Class by Patricia Ingham


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Challenging widely-held assumptions about the study of the Victorian novel, this work considers the following examples of the genre: Shirley by Charlotte Bronte, Felix Holt by George Eliot, Hard Times by Charles Dickens and Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy.

Language of Gender and Class Summary

Language of Gender and Class: Transformation in the Victorian Novel by Patricia Ingham

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

About Patricia Ingham

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).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Representation of Society in the Early Nineteenth Century; Chapter 2 The Interlocked Coding of Class and Gender; Chapter 3 Shirley; Chapter 4 North and South; Chapter 5 Hard Times; Chapter 6 Changes in the Representation of Class in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century; Chapter 7 Felix Holt; Chapter 8 The Unclassed; Chapter 9 Jude the Obscure;

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GOR004961112
9780415082228
0415082226
Language of Gender and Class: Transformation in the Victorian Novel by Patricia Ingham
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
19960404
208
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