{"product_id":"class-fictions-pamela-fox-9780822315421","title":"Class Fictions: Shame and Resistance in the British Working Class Novel, 1890-1945","description":"Many recent discussions of working-class culture in literary and cultural studies have tended to present an oversimplified view of resistance. In this groundbreaking work, Pamela Fox offers a far more complex theory of working-class identity, particularly as reflected in British novels of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through the concept of class shame, she produces a model of working-class subjectivity that understands resistance in a more accurate and useful way--as a complicated kind of refusal, directed at both dominated and dominant culture.\u003cbr\u003eWith a focus on certain classics in the working-class literary \"canon,\" such as \u003ci\u003eThe Ragged Trousered Philanthropists\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLove on the Dole, \u003c\/i\u003e as well as lesser-known texts by working-class women, Fox uncovers the anxieties that underlie representations of class and consciousness. Shame repeatedly emerges as a powerful counterforce in these works, continually unsettling the surface narrative of protest to reveal an ambivalent relation toward the working-class identities the novels apparently champion. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eClass Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e offers an equally rigorous analysis of cultural studies itself, which has historically sought to defend and value the radical difference of working-class culture. Fox also brings to her analysis a strong feminist perspective that devotes considerable attention to the often overlooked role of gender in working-class fiction. She demonstrates that working-class novels not only expose master narratives of middle-class culture that must be resisted, but that they also reveal to us a need to create counter narratives or formulas of working-class life. In doing so, this book provides a more subtle sense of the role of resistance in working class culture. While of interest to scholars of Victorian and working-class fiction, Pamela Fox's argument has far-reaching implications for the way literary and cultural studies will be defined and practiced.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pamela Fox\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822315424\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822315421\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/21\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d","brand":"Pamela Fox","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47135254905087,"sku":"9780822315421","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d548f4ed-b650-45b7-92c8-b282432619fc.jpg?v=1755009598","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/class-fictions-pamela-fox-9780822315421","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}