Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-234) and index.
Contents
Introduction. Recovering the "Narrow plot of acquisitiveness and desire": a methodology for reading working-class narrative -- 1. Rehabilitating working-class cultural and literary history: the critical agenda -- 2. The ragged trousered philanthropists and after: epistemologies of class, legacies of resistance -- 3. On the "Borderland of tears": reputation, exposure and the public/private dynamic of working -class culture -- 4. The "Revolt of the gentle": romance and the politics of resistance in working-class writing -- Afterward: Getting their own back.
Reproduction
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