First published in 1971. The book examines the presentation of the urban and industrial working classes in Victorian fiction. It considers the different types o

This book examines representations of working-class masculine subjectivity in Victorian autobiography and fiction. In it, Ying focuses on ideas of domesticity a

In the context of this rapidly changing world, Rachel Worth explores the ways in which the clothing of the rural working classes was represented visually in pai

The late Victorian period brought a radical change in cultural attitudes toward middle-class women and work. Anxiety over the growing disproportion between wome

This volume is the first to identify a significant body of life narratives by working-class women and to demonstrate their inherent literary significance. Placi