Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Victorian Middle-Class Status and the Negative Assertion of Value
- 1 The Orphan Narratives of a Class Lacking Antecedents
- 2 Repudiations of Wealth in Victorian Financial Fiction
- 3 The Violence at the Heart of the Social Problem Novel
- 4 Social Domination, Social Scientific Empiricism, and Novelistic Distrust of the Modern Fact
- 5 Legitimizing the Subjection of Middle-Class Women in Mid-Victorian Fiction
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 April 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Victorian Middle-Class Status and the Negative Assertion of Value
- 1 The Orphan Narratives of a Class Lacking Antecedents
- 2 Repudiations of Wealth in Victorian Financial Fiction
- 3 The Violence at the Heart of the Social Problem Novel
- 4 Social Domination, Social Scientific Empiricism, and Novelistic Distrust of the Modern Fact
- 5 Legitimizing the Subjection of Middle-Class Women in Mid-Victorian Fiction
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Victorian Fictions of Middle-Class StatusForms of Absence in the Age of Reform, pp. 230 - 233Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2022