{"product_id":"victorian-fictions-of-middleclass-status-9781399507707","title":"Victorian Fictions of MiddleClass Status","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReconstructs the surprising, self-interested, at times paradoxical attempts of Victorian novelists to define the limits of middle-class status\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577936089431,"sku":"9781399507707","price":80.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781399507707.jpg?v=1746097292","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/victorian-fictions-of-middleclass-status-9781399507707","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}