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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: City of Dreadful Delight. The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, — Charles Dickens in Context. The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel. The Cambridge Introduction to Charles Dickens. The ghost story The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack. Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre. A Cultural History of the Irish Novel, — The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens. English Novel in History, The Victorian Novel and Masculinity. Revolutions in Taste, — Imagining Women Readers, The Doctor in the Victorian Novel.
Romanticism, Medicine and the Natural Supernatural. English Fiction of the Early Modern Period. Virginia Woolf and the Professions. Evelyn Tsz Yan Chan.
Pater to Forster, Opening The Nursery Door. Romantic Friendship in Victorian Literature.
The Writings of Hesba Stretton. Memory and Memorials, The Art of Alibi.
Victorian Narratives of the Recent Past. Dress and Identity in British Literary Culture, However, The Language of Gender and Class demonstrates that none of the novelists, either male or female, completely accepts either the stereotyped figures or the authorized story. Pick up the guide to Hard-Boiled Outlines and start writing like a pro. Would you like us to take another look at this review? Please review your cart.
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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. The Language of Gender and Class: Transformation in the Victorian Novel. London and New York: Routledge, Pp. $ $ Reviewed by Jane.
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index. Publisher's Summary In this lucid and cogently argued work, Patricia Ingham examines in detail the widely accepted critical cliche: