Subjectivities
A History of Self-Representation in Britain, 1832-1920
1st Edition
Published on 14. February 1991
334 pages
978-0-19-536296-1 (ISBN)
Description
This comparative analysis draws on working-class autobiography, public and boarding school memoirs, and the canonical autobiographies by women and men in the United Kingdom to define subjectivity and value within social class and gender in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain. Gagnier reconsiders traditional distinctions between mind and body, private desire and public good, aesthetics and utility, and fact and value in the context of everyday life.
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Content
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- Pragmatics, Rhetoric and Cultural Studies
- Subjectivity
- Value
- 1. Situating Subjectivities
- Rhetorical Projects in Participation and Antagonism
- Gendered, Classed Subjects and Cultural Narratives
- 2. Subjectivity, the Body, and Material Culture
- Working Women's Uncanny World of Childbirth
- Henry Mayhew's Rich World of Poverty
- Florence Nightingale's Violent World of Leisure
- 3. Representations of the Working Classes by Nonworking-Class Writers: Subjectivity and Solidarity
- The Classic Victorian Novel: Solidarity for Whom?
- Nonfictional Representations
- Late Victorian Short Fiction
- 4. Working-Class Autobiography, Subjectivity, and Value
- Working-Class Subjectivity and Aesthetics
- The Variety of Working-Class Autobiography
- Conclusions: Subjectivity and Value
- 5. The Making of Middle-Class Identities: School and Family
- The Male Public Schools
- Women on Schools and Rules
- 6. Literary Subjectivity and Other Possibilities in Some Classic Texts
- Literary Subjectivity
- Other Possibilities
- Concluding Observations through 1990
- Notes
- Index
