TY - BOOK AU - Bivona,Daniel AU - Henkle,Roger B. ED - Project Muse. TI - The Imagination of Class : : Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor / SN - 9780814272497 PY - 2006///] CY - Columbus PB - The Ohio State University Press KW - Fattiga i litteraturen KW - sao KW - Fattiga KW - attityder till KW - historia KW - England KW - 1800-talet KW - Journalistik KW - kao KW - Litteraturvetenskap KW - Klassamhället KW - Medelklassen KW - manlighet KW - Fattigdom KW - städer KW - attityder KW - Storbritannien KW - viktorianska tiden KW - Englische Literatur KW - Motiv KW - Mann KW - idsbb KW - Klasse KW - Städtische Gesellschaft KW - Armut KW - Grossbritannien KW - Geschichte 19. Jh KW - Urban poor KW - fast KW - Social classes in literature KW - Sex role in literature KW - Poverty in literature KW - Poor in literature KW - Masculinity in literature KW - English prose literature KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh KW - Pauvres dans la litterature KW - Pauvrete dans la litterature KW - Rôle selon le sexe dans la litterature KW - Masculinite dans la litterature KW - Classes sociales dans la litterature KW - Pauvres en milieu urbain KW - Grande-Bretagne KW - Histoire KW - 19e siecle KW - Prose anglaise KW - Histoire et critique KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Sensational journalism, male detachment, and the feminized victim -- Culturalism, the feminized poor, and the land of deadened affect -- Morrison, Gissing, and the stark reality -- Hell hath its flâneurs : the discourse of the abyss -- Conclusion: Representing the poor and forestalling abjection; Open Access N2 - "A meld of two scholars' research and conclusions, The Imagination of Class is a synthetic journey through middle class Victorian discourse posed by poverty in the midst of plenty - but not that alone. Rather Dan Bivona and Roger B. Henkle argue that the representation of abject poverty in the nineteenth century also displaced anxieties aroused by a variety of challenges to Victorian middle class masculinity. The book's main argument, in fact, is that the male middle class imagery of urban poverty in the Victorian age presents a complex picture, one in which anxieties about competition, violence, class-based resentment, individuality, and the need to differentiate oneself from the scions of inherited wealth influence mightily the ways in which the urban poor are represented. In the representations themselves, the urban poor are alternately envisioned as sentimentalized (and feminized) victims who stimulate middle class affective response, as the objects of the professionalized discourses of the social sciences (and social services), and as an often hostile social force resistant to the "culturalizing," taming processes of a maternalist social science." "Through carefully nuanced discussions of a variety of Victorian novelists, journalists, and sociological investigators (some well known, like Dickens, and others less well known, like Masterman and Greenwood), the book offers new insight into the role played by the imagination of the urban poor in the construction of Victorian middle class masculinity. Whereas many scholars have discussed the feminization of the poor, virtually no one has addressed how the poor have served as a site at which middle class men fashioned their own class and gender identity."--Jacket UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/28186/ ER -