Journal article
Introduction: The Literature of the Victorian Working Classes
Philological quarterly, Vol.92(2), pp.131-145
03/22/2013
Abstract
"4 Though "literacy" as measured by historians was much below the skill needed for interpreting, much less writing, poems or essays, even these crude figures record a sea change.5 The issue of who in fact can be properly considered "working-class" is a potentially vexed problem in dealing with authorship, for one class marker was education itself. [...]the proportion of the population which might be called "middle class" by one definition or another expanded during the century-increasing at least threefold.6 In defining "working class" I have adopted a "broad church" approach, similar to that enunciated by John Burnett, David Vincent, and David Mayell in the introduction to The Autobiography of the Working-Class, 1790-1940: "Our aim was to include those who for some period of their lives could be described as working class, whether defined in terms of their relationship with the means of production, their educational experiences and cultural ties, by self-ascription, or by any combination of these factors.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Introduction: The Literature of the Victorian Working Classes
- Creators
- Florence Boos
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Philological quarterly, Vol.92(2), pp.131-145
- Publisher
- University of Iowa, Philological Quarterly
- ISSN
- 0031-7977
- eISSN
- 2169-5342
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/22/2013
- Academic Unit
- International Programs; English
- Record Identifier
- 9984398057902771
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