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Reconstructs the surprising, self-interested, at times paradoxical attempts of Victorian novelists to define the limits of middle-class status

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"Pionke's striking innovation is to propose that mid-Victorian bourgeoisie strove to justify their status in negative terms. His persuasive and thought-provoking work allows readers to connect current-day notions of class and economic privilege to an earlier period of capitalist plutocracy a period in which questions of privilege and invidious economic comparisons found their expression in very different cultural forms."" -John Plotz, Brandeis University

Victorian Fictions of MiddleClass Status

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      Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
      Publication Date: 1/29/2022 12:11:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781399507707, 978-1399507707
      ISBN10: 1399507702
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      Literary studies: fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Reconstructs the surprising, self-interested, at times paradoxical attempts of Victorian novelists to define the limits of middle-class status

      Trade Review
      "Pionke's striking innovation is to propose that mid-Victorian bourgeoisie strove to justify their status in negative terms. His persuasive and thought-provoking work allows readers to connect current-day notions of class and economic privilege to an earlier period of capitalist plutocracy a period in which questions of privilege and invidious economic comparisons found their expression in very different cultural forms."" -John Plotz, Brandeis University

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